Thelma Walmsley

Thelma Jo Walmsley (1918–1997) was a Canadian baseball and softball player.

Walmsley played for the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in the 1946 season.[1] Prior to her stint with the Racine Belles, Walmsley played for the Montreal Royals of the Montreal Major Ladies' Softball League.[2]

In 1998, Walmsley was one of the Canadian women who played in the AAGPBL who were inducted as a group into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.[3] Her Racine Belles jacket is held in the collection of the Copper Cliff Museum in Walmsley's hometown of Copper Cliff, Ontario.[4]

References
  1. Leslie A. Heaphy and Mel Anthony May, Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball. McFarland & Company, 2016. ISBN 9781476665948.
  2. "Royals Are Coming!" The Globe and Mail, July 29, 1943.
  3. "Remembering the Girls of Summer: First female players inducted in Canada's Baseball Hall of Fame". Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 1998.
  4. "Copper Cliff Museum". Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums.
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