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Elizabeth B. Mahon () (November 18, 1919 – September 6, 2001) was a female outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 135 lb., Mahon batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Greenville, South Carolina. ==Early life== Lib Mahon was one of six children of David Mahon and Pearl Mahon. Her father was an avid baseball fan, as well as her older brother, while her younger brother played sandlot ball and her three sisters handled most of the chores around home. At age of twelve, Mahon and her older sisters played for a local basketball team sponsored by the Brandon Cotton Mill, where their father worked as a truck driver. She also played intramural sports at Parker High, including fastpitch softball, field hockey and soccer. Mahon proved herself to be one of the most competent ballplayers in AAGPBL history. On a very early age, she got used to play ball with her brothers in Greenville brownfields. She not only learned how to play the games, but also gained self-confidence by setting and reaching goals, self-esteem by continual growth, and respect for others and themselves. Lil, who grew up in a mill village located directly across the street from the Brandon Mills, was among the most talented of those who ever played on the improvised baseball diamonds that were usually the property of one of the area's many textile mills. It was not easy for a female ball player to hone her diamond skills in the thirties, because the high schools did offer athletic programs for female student, and the girls who liked baseball could often be seen playing with the boys. Part of a modest and big family, Mahon decided to take a job in a cotton mill while completing her senior year in high school. Even though life at the mill meant 55-hour weeks for those who were considered full-time employers, girls' athletic teams usually were made up of employers who held jobs at their respective plants, as the games were played on weekends, though an occasional weekday game came (into the picture) from time to time. While it was common the practice for men's mills teams to put talented ball players on the local payroll to shore up the strength of their lineup, the girls just played for fun. Despite being one of the better players around the Greenville area, Mahon never received payment for playing on any of these teams. Mahon continued to work at her boring mill job following her graduation in 1937, until an aunt offered to pay her a college education at Winthrop College. Mahon accepted the generous proposition and began her freshman year on the campus in 1938. She finished college in 1942 with a degree in physical education, and spent one year in Whitmire, South Carolina, teaching all subjects to a class of seventh graders. She returned to Greenville in 1944 and took a job in the U.S. Post Office. While at college, Mahon started a close friendship with Viola Thompson, a talented fastpitch softball pitcher with the same passion for baseball. Eventually, Mahon played softball in Greenville on the same team with Thompson. In the same year, a talent scout offered Mahon and Thompson an invitation to come to the newly founded All-American Girls Professional Baseball League tryouts, which were to be held at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. With the prospect of making the $60 per week that was being paid to the members of the established teams, which was a vast sum of money by then, the two Greenville girls decided to try their hand in the new league. Both Mahon and Thompson managed to win full-time jobs in the AAGPBL for the 1944 season. 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「Elizabeth Mahon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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