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Jean Malanowski/Marlowe

Jean Malanowski/Marlowe

Jean Malanowski/Marlowe

Jean Malanowski/Marlowe

Jean Malanowski/Marlowe

Profile Information

  • Maiden Name:
  • Nickname: "Jeanie"
  • Hometown: Scranton, PA (US)
  • Throwing Hand: Right
  • Batting Hand: Right
  • Born: December 28, 1929
  • Died: April 16, 2007

Jean Malanowski/MarloweHistory

Team Position Uniform #
1948 Springfield Sallies Pitcher 26
1949 Kenosha Comets Outfield & Pitcher 6
1950 Kenosha Comets Outfield & Pitcher 6
1951 Kenosha Comets First Base-Second Base & Pitcher 6
1952 Kalamazoo Lassies Pitcher 12
1954 Kalamazoo Lassies Pitcher 15

 Jean Marlowe, whose last name was originally Malanowski, changed her last name during league play as a result of a misspelling in a newspaper article.

Jean Malanowski/Marlowe, 77, died April 16, 2007 in the Lackawanna County Health Care Center. Jean was living independently at the Joseph M. McDade Apartments with care from Lief Geisinger.

Jean was born in Scranton, PA., the daughter of the late Stanley and Josephine (Kafchinski) Malanowski. She graduated from Scranton Central High School and later studied at the University of Wisconsin.

Jean followed in her dad's footsteps, he being a baseball player with the Scranton Miners. Jean left school early in 1946 to play professional baseball. She played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league on which the movie "A League of Their Own," starring Tom Hanks, was based. She excelled in the league from 1948 to 1954, as a pitcher, infielder and outfielder, and held many batting and pitching records.  Jean changed her last name to Marlowe during league play due to a misspelling of her last name in a newspaper article.

Jean received many accolades, among which was her induction into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, and she was honored, with all league players, with recognition from the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame when the Women in Baseball exhibit was opened there Nov. 5, 1988.

Obituary obtained online from Find A Grave Memorial.

Author: Find A Grave Memorial; W.C. Madden, "The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League," p. 159.

Contributed By: Helen Nordquist

Copyright: Find A Grave Memorial & W.C. Madden


LeagueBatting Record

Year Ga AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
1948 32 83 4 9 1 1 0 2 2 10 24 .108
1949 98 305 25 67 6 4 1 17 16 31 68 .220
1950 42 109 11 23 1 1 1 10 4 10 24 .211
1951 66 178 17 31 4 0 0 16 4 31 27 .174
1952 35 86 12 25 4 0 3 12 2 10 9 .291
1954 41 77 14 12 1 0 2 11 0 25 14 .156

LeaguePitching Record

Year G IP R ER ERA BB SO HB WP W L PCT
1948 31 236 141 96 3.66 60 42 8 2 7 22 .241
1949 17 108 42 32 2.67 49 11 4 4 7 7 .500
1950 25 201 66 54 2.42 64 51 7 1 12 12 .500
1951 28 211 89 59 2.52 86 116 10 4 12 15 .444
1952 21 172 77 62 3.24 77 60 11 1 10 11 .476
1954 23 147 109 78 4.78 114 43 7 5 8 12 .400

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