Barbara Galdonik

Barbara Ann Galdonik (October 26, 1934 – December 1, 2003) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Listed at 5' 5", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed.[1][2]

Barbara Galdonik
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Third base
Born: (1934-10-26)October 26, 1934
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Died: December 1, 2003(2003-12-01) (aged 69)
Superior, Wisconsin
Batted: Right Threw: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (unveiled in 1988)

Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Galdonik played at third base for the Kenosha Comets and Battle Creek Belles clubs in a span of two seasons from 1950–1951. She did not have individual records or additional information was incomplete at the time of the request.[1][3]

She died in 2003 in Superior, Wisconsin, at the age of 69.[4]

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since 1988 that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[5]

Sources
  1. Barbara Galdonik Profile. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  2. Madden, W. C. (2005) The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2263-0
  3. Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-0597-8
  4. Family Trees. Ancestry.com
  5. Before A League of Their Own. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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