Ruth Matlack

Ruth Matlack [Sagrati] (January 13, 1931 - August 11, 2017) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Listed a 5' 2", 127 lb., she batted and threw left handed.

Ruth Matlack was a more efficient hitter than pitcher during her only season in the league.

Born in Cromwell Heights, Pennsylvania, she played for a team based in Norristown, where she read about the league in a newspaper and went to a tryout in Allentown. In 1950, she was invited to spring training in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and was assigned to the Fort Wayne Daisies as a pitcher.

Matlack was used as a relief pitcher. The left-hander threw a natural curveball and a changeup, but not much of a fastball.

The AAGPBL shipped Matlack to the Kalamazoo Lassies before the 1951 season, but she was feeling homesick and did not want return to the league. In the same year, she married John Sagrati. The same year, she gained induction in the Bensalem High School Hall of Fame.