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Josephine Kabick

Josephine Kabick

Josephine Kabick

Josephine Kabick

Josephine Kabick

Profile Information

  • Maiden Name:
  • Nickname: "Jo"
  • Hometown: Detroit, MI (US)
  • Throwing Hand: Right
  • Batting Hand: Right
  • Born: March 27, 1922
  • Died: February 8, 1978

Josephine KabickHistory

Team Position Uniform #
1944 Milwaukee Chicks Pitcher 8
1945 Grand Rapids Chicks Pitcher 13
1946 Grand Rapids Chicks Pitcher 8
1946 Kenosha Comets Pitcher Unknown
1947 Peoria Redwings Pitcher 33
1948 Chicago Colleens Pitcher Unknown

"Jo" was an effective pitcher in her four seasons with the AAGPBL. She had a lifetime ERA of 2.33 with 74 wins and 73 loses, she was known as a real work horse. Jo led the league with wins in 1944 with 26 wins. She had 245 strike outs to her credit, and she pitched 8+ innings average per game including a 16 inning game in 1945. Her best year was 1944 with a 26-19 record. Jo played for the Chicago Colleens in 1948, but we are sorry we cannot find her stats for that year.

Josephine "Jo" Kabick was a female pitcher who played from 1944 through 1947 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft. 7 in. (1.70 m), 142 lb., Kabick batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Kabick entered the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944 with the expansion Milwaukee Chicks, playing for them one year before joining the Grand Rapids Chicks (1945-46), Kenosha Comets (1946), and Peoria Redwings (1947). In her rookie season, she posted a 26–19 record with 81 strikeouts in 45 pitching appearances, while leading the league in victories and innings of work (366).

In 1944, the Chicks, managed by Max Carey, and supported by Kabick, slugger Merle Keagle, and the speedy Alma Ziegler, finished 30–26 in the first half of the year and dominated the second half (40-19) to collect the best overall record (70-45). They then went on to win the Championship Title, beating Kenosha in seven games.

Although the Chicks captured the AAGPBL championship in 1944, they had no local financial or newspaper backing and could not compete with the American Association Milwaukee Brewers. In fact, the Chicks were forced to play all seven games of the championship series at Kenosha's Lake Front Stadium because the Brewers were using Borchert Field in Milwaukee. Due to lack of community support and the vaunted skepticism of journalists, the team moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan prior to the 1945 season.

But Kabick was unable to repeat her heroics for the 1945 season, while her teammate Connie Wisniewski emerged as one of the most dominant pitchers of the league. After pitching in the two cities, Kabick was dealt to Kenosha during  midseason. She slipped to a combined 16–18 record that year. In 1946, Kabick improved to 19–19 with Kenosha, a pretty good performance considering her team finished seventh in the eight-team league with a losing record of 42–70, but then she found herself on the move again. This time Kabick went 13–16 for the fifth-place Peoria Redwings (55-57) in 1947, during what turned out to be her last AAGPBL season.

Kabick died in Florida at the age of 55 February 8, 1978.   Ten years after her death, she became part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which opened November 5, 1988, and is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual player.

Author: Wikipedia

Contributed By: Helen Nordquist

Copyright: Wikipedia


LeagueBatting Record

Year Ga AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
1944 46 128 9 22 0 2 0 12 4 6 14 .172
1945 35 99 6 12 4 1 0 4 0 4 15 .121
1946 40 114 5 19 2 0 0 3 0 2 8 .167
1947 31 80 2 10 1 0 0 1 2 3 13 .125
1948 - - - - - - - - - - - -

LeaguePitching Record

Year G IP R ER ERA BB SO HB WP W L PCT
1944 45 366 158 108 2.66 147 81 13 22 26 19 .578
1945 35 292 91 60 1.85 113 33 5 8 16 18 .471
1946 40 324 131 86 2.39 72 53 3 6 19 19 .500
1947 31 231 101 60 2.34 71 78 2 8 13 16 .448
1948 - - - - - - - - - - - -

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