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Lenora Mandella
Lenora Mandella (4 May, 1931 - 12 August, 2005) played shortstop and pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between 1949 and 1951. She both batted and threw right-handed. Her nickname was Smokey. She measured in at 5 feet 7 inches and weighed 145 pounds.
Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Lenora became a pioneer in women's baseball, having featured in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY on November 6, 1988. As well, she was a local duckpin bowler. She worked for the Glasshouse in Glassport, Operating Engineers Local 66 Insurance Fund in Monroeville and Copperweld until she retired. She died in Herminie, PA.
==Baseball beginnings==
Lenora first began her involvement in baseball when Phillip K. Wrigley -- owner of the Chicago Cubs -- financed the league in the mid-1940s, when a lot of the men were called up to serve in World War II. In 1949, Lenora attended a tryout at McKeesport's Renziehausen Park. From that, she was sent on a trip to Sound Bend, Indiana for spring training. According to her friend Norma Dearfield, "she had a pretty good arm."
Lenora played for the Peoria Redwings (in 1951), the South Bend Blue Sox (in 1949), and the Springfield Sallies (in 1950.
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