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Eulah Elizabeth Tucker

Eulah Elizabeth Tucker

Eulah Elizabeth Tucker

Eulah Elizabeth Tucker

Eulah Elizabeth Tucker

Profile Information

  • Maiden Name:
  • Nickname: "Betty"
  • Hometown: Detroit, MI (US)
  • Throwing Hand: Right
  • Batting Hand: Right
  • Born: January 28, 1924
  • Died: August 20, 2012

Eulah Elizabeth TuckerHistory

Team Position Uniform #
1946 Peoria Redwings Pitcher 24
1947 Fort Wayne Daisies Pitcher 13
1947 Grand Rapids Chicks Pitcher 15
1947 Rockford Peaches Pitcher Unknown
1948 Chicago Colleens Pitcher 18
1949 Peoria Redwings Pitcher 7

Betty played on the sand lots of Detroit and brought her pitching talents to the AAGPBL. She made a successful change as an underhand pitcher to a sidearm pitcher. She displayed a great amount of speed on the diamond. In the off-season she did office work and enjoyed playing basketball and skating.  She did play in the Chicago League for 5 years from 1950 to 1954.

Eulah Elizabeth "Betty" Tucker was a pitcher who played from 1946 through 1949 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.  Listed at 5' 4", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.  A native of Detroit, Michigan, Tucker received an invitation in 1946 to participate in the AAGPBL spring training held in Pascagoula, Mississippi. After making the league tryout, she was allocated to the Peoria Redwings. A hard-throwing underhand pitcher, Tucker struggled through the many stages of the league, including shifting from underhand (1946) to sidearm (1947) to overhand (1948) pitching. She hurled on expansion teams that did not give her much run support.

After a year in Peoria, Tucker opened 1947 with the Fort Wayne Daisies and then found herself on the move again, this time to the Rockford Peaches and then the Grand Rapids Chicks. The next year she joined the Chicago Colleens, and returned to the Redwings in 1949, her last AAGPBL season. After that, Tucker pitched in 1950 for the Rockola Chicks of the rival National Girls Baseball League, which was based in Chicago and retained underhand pitching through 1953. At the time, many AAGPBL players also joined the NGBL because of better salaries and in some cases for not being on the road as much was also important.

The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York was opened November 5, 1988 that honors them.

 Betty passed away  August 20, 2012. 

Author: Wikipedia

Contributed By: Helen Nordquist

Copyright: Wikipedia


LeagueBatting Record

Year Ga AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
1946 38 48 8 10 0 1 0 0 0 4 12 .208
1947 21 28 3 2 0 0 0 1 5 2 8 .071
1948 48 86 15 18 1 0 0 5 11 10 19 .209
1949 64 121 16 23 1 2 0 12 4 32 12 .190

LeaguePitching Record

Year G IP R ER ERA BB SO HB WP W L PCT
1946 22 125 85 47 3.38 64 20 1 10 10 12 .077
1947 16 92 63 38 3.72 36 18 20 5 0 12 .000
1948 33 238 106 71 2.68 112 90 19 1 11 17 .393
1949 16 118 51 35 2.67 35 25 6 2 4 8 .333

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