Gloria Schweigerdt

Gloria June "Tippy" Schweigerdt (June 10, 1934 – July 10, 2014) was an American pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at , 120 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.

Born in Chicago, to Emily (née Hardt) and Gottlieb Schweigerdt, Gloria Schweigerdt started playing sandlot ball with her brother and the boys of her neighborhood at age seven. When she turned fifteen, she went to a league tryout held at Thillens Stadium in Skokie. In 1950, she was assigned to the Chicago Colleens/Springfield Sallies rookie touring teams. She traveled all over the country and posted an 8–7 record while pitching for the Colleens. During the trip, she hurled a no-hitter at the old Yankee Stadium. "No other woman had ever pitched off that mound before me", she recalled in an interview.

Schweigerdt was promoted to the Grand Rapids Chicks in the 1951 season and ended up pitching for the Battle Creek Belles during the midseason. In all, Schweigerdt went 3–4 with a 2.72 earned run average in 14 games. She died in 2014 in Wauconda, Illinois, at the age of 80.

Career statistics Pitching GPWLW-L%ERAIPHRAERBBSOHBPWPWHIP 42 13 14 .481 2.88 256 230 114 82 95 80 10 1 1.27

Batting

Fielding GPPOAETCDPFA 42 12 71 6 29 0 .913