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Carolyn Morris

Carolyn Morris

Carolyn Morris

Carolyn Morris

Carolyn Morris

Profile Information

  • Maiden Name:
  • Nickname: "India"
  • Hometown: Phoenix, AZ (US)
  • Throwing Hand: Right
  • Batting Hand: Right
  • Born: September 28, 1925
  • Died: February 20, 1996

Carolyn MorrisHistory

Team Position Uniform #
1944 Rockford Peaches Pitcher 2
1945 Rockford Peaches Pitcher 2
1946 Rockford Peaches Pitcher 2

Carolyn began pitching in grammar school. She played on some championship softball teams in Phoenix, Arizona before joining the Peaches in 1944.

Carolyn E. Morris, a Hall of Fame softball player who pitched for the Phoenix A-1 Queens and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League [AAGPBL] died February. 20, 1996.  [She was born September 28, 1925.]  The Phoenix resident was 70.

Miss Morris began her softball/baseball career in Phoenix in 1941 with the A-1 Queens softball team.  Four years later, she won a championship as a member of the Rockford Peaches of Illinois. 

During the AAGPBL's 1945 championship series, Miss Morris pitched seven straight winning games.  In 1946, she wass chosen to the AAGPBL's all-star team.

From 1947 to 1950, Miss Morris returned to Phoenix's A-1 Queens, and in one season had a pitching record of 58 wins and 11 losses. She was inducted into the Arizona Softball Hall of Fame in 1974.

Miss Morris modeled for House of Tiffany, a Chicago diamond store.  Upon retirement from the softball league, she worked as a real estate agent in the Phoenix area.

Jennifer Harris remembered her aunt as big, strong, and brave, “but most of all, she said, “Carolyn was modest about her softball/baseball career.”

“She devoted her life to her sport and she never got respect for being a serious athlete. Hollywood wanted to buy her story for the movies, but she wouldn’t do it. That experieince was too special for her,” Harris said.

“The [softball] league never paid the players, either,” Harris said.

Survivors included her three sisters and three brothers.

A memorial service was held at Whitney and Murphy Arcadia Funeral Home in Phoenix with visitation an hour before services.

Author: Eric Searieman

Contributed By: Merrie Fidler

Copyright: Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Feb.23, 1996, p. 86 – copyright 2020 Newspapers.com


LeagueBatting Record

Year Ga AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
1944 46 126 9 18 1 2 0 8 4 13 28 .143
1945 43 118 12 17 0 2 0 7 2 6 29 .144
1946 49 122 4 23 1 1 0 11 2 14 18 .189

LeaguePitching Record

Year G IP R ER ERA BB SO HB WP W L PCT
1944 44 343 116 82 2.15 133 112 28 15 23 18 .561
1945 42 333 68 40 1.08 55 119 9 6 28 12 .700
1946 48 356 82 56 1.42 98 240 12 9 29 13 .690

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