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Arlene Kotil (born May 22, 1934) is a former infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw left-handed. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Arlene Kotil started playing organized softball at age 16 for the Blue Island Stars, one of four teams in the defunct All-American Girls minor league of Chicago.〔The South Bend Blue Sox: A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players, 1943-1954 – Jim Sargent and Robert M. Gorman. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2011. Format: Softcover, 302 pp. Language: English. ISBN 978-0-7864-4647-6〕 Kotil joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1949 while still attending high school. She was assigned to the Chicago Colleens/Springfield Sallies rookie touring teams in order to develop her skills.〔(1949 Springfield Sallies )〕 Basically a line drive hitter, she covered first base for her hometown team, playing in over 50 cities across 16 states from New York south through Florida throughout the midwest and south into Texas. The Colleens and the Sallies played over 75 exhibition games against each other between June and September of that year.〔(1949 Chicago Colleens )〕 One of her highlights during the trip was hitting an inside-the-park home run against Springfield to tie a game at 7–7 in the eight inning.〔Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball – Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Softcover, 438pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-2100-2〕 Kotil was promoted to the Muskegon Lassies in 1950.〔 During the midseason, the league was losing money and fans, and the teams and host cities were changing almost every year. By the time, baseball was booming in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This was a good fact for Kalamazoo, as the city was granted the Lassies franchise on a trial basis when the city of Muskegon could no longer support them.〔(Kalamazoo Public Library – The Kalamazoo Lassies (1950-1954) )〕 Then, Kotil was sent to the South Bend Blue Sox in the same transaction that brought pitcher Lillian Faralla to the Kalamazoo Lassies.〔The South Bend Blue Sox〕 The next year she was a member of the 1951 Blue Sox champion team, even though she did not play during the postseason.〔(1951 South Bend Blue Sox )〕 Arlene Kotil is part of ''Women in Baseball'', a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. At age, she currently resides in Palos Heights, Illinois.〔(Intelius.com – Arlene Kotil report )〕 ==Career statistics== Batting Fielding Note: Since the league counted the 1950 tour as exhibition games no official statistics were kept. 〔〔All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-0597-x〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arlene Kotil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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