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Betty Foss

Betty Foss

Betty Foss

Betty Foss

Betty Foss

Profile Information

  • Maiden Name: (Weaver)
  • Nickname: "Fossey"
  • Hometown: Metropolis, IL (US)
  • Throwing Hand: Right
  • Batting Hand: Left
  • Born: May 10, 1929
  • Died: February 8, 1998

Betty FossHistory

Team Position Uniform #
1950 Fort Wayne Daisies Third Base 22
1951 Fort Wayne Daisies First Base 22
1952 Fort Wayne Daisies First Base - MVP 6
1953 Fort Wayne Daisies First Base & Outfield 6
1954 Fort Wayne Daisies First Base & Outfield 6

Betty Foss is the big sister of Jo Weaver and these two sisters were All-Stars who were feared by their opponents. There is a third sister, Jean, and all three played for the Daisies.  Betty was a hard hitting first and third baseman and outfielder and she led the league in hitting the first two years she played. As a great competitor she held most of the AAGPBL season records than any other player in the league. These records include: batting avg. .368, hits in a season 144, double in a season 34 and triples in a season 17.  Betty was named "Player of the Year" in 1952.


Professional baseball player Betty Weaver Foss was a switch hitting infielder and outfielder remembered as a superstar during the final years of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). 

Raised in downstate Illinois as part of a noted athletic family, she played top level men's softball in her teens and at one point was even offered a contract with the Chicago White Sox. 

In 1950, Betty joined the Ft. Wayne Daisies of the AAGPBL and made an immediate impact, winning the batting crown with a .346 average and earning Rookie of the Year honors. The next year she took another batting title by hitting .368 while 1952 saw her named Player of the Year, and she receive the first of her two All-Star selections. In five years at Ft. Wayne, she and her sisters Jean and Joanne helped their team to the playoffs every year though the squad always came up short of the league crown. Over her career, Betty hit .342, second only to Joanne, while collecting 32 home runs and 294 stolen bases.  She holds the single season records for hits, doubles, and triples. 

After the circuit folded in 1954, she played for a girls' barnstorming team as well as in men's softball leagues. She spent many years working in a Ft. Wayne pump factory before her 1994 return home where she died of Lou Gehrig's Disease on February 8 1998.  Ironically, it was the same condition that claimed Joanne. Betty was part of the 1988 recognition of the AAGPBL and its players at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The league's story is told in the 1992 film feature "A League of Their Own."  

Author: Find A Grave Memorial

Contributed By: Helen Nordquist

Copyright: Find A Grave Memorial


LeagueBatting Record

Year Ga AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
1950 96 361 64 125 24 3 5 61 64 43 46 .346
1951 94 342 77 126 34 2 4 58 60 48 34 .368
1952 106 414 81 137 26 17 4 74 56 53 40 .331
1953 110 449 99 144 20 8 5 65 80 28 35 .321
1954 92 332 80 117 13 0 14 54 34 27 21 .352
CAREER 312

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