Larry Zolf, Canadian journalist and humorist died he was , 76

Larry Zolf  was a Canadian journalist and commentator  died he was , 76.

(July 19, 1934 – March 14, 2011)
 
Zolf was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[1] He earned a B.A. from the University of Winnipeg, and then received a Masters degree in Canadian history from the University of Toronto. In 1962, he joined the CBC. During the 1960s he was one of the hosts of the CBC's controversial current-affairs show This Hour Has Seven Days and its replacement series Sunday.^[1]
In 1965, Zolf's documentary on computers won the Anik Award.^[1] This documentary was later rebroadcast as one of Canada's 100 best documentaries on the 50th anniversary of the National Film Board.
During the Munsinger Affair, a 1966 sex scandal involving former federal Minister of Defence Pierre Sévigny, Zolf showed up on Sévigny's doorstep in pursuit of the story, and Sévigny promptly hit Zolf over the head with his cane.^[1]
In 1970, Zolf covered the October Crisis in Quebec for the CBC.
In October 1971, Zolf invited feminist Germaine Greer and anti-abortion politician Joe Borowski on his program to discuss the emergence of second-wave feminism. During the program, however, Zolf launched his own attack on Greer, accusing her of "ignoring ethnic and class differences among women." Greer responded by accusing him of fabricating sections of her book (The Female Eunuch, in fact, contained no "section" on truck drivers) and told him, "I never suggested any such thing. I cannot have you sitting here distorting my book for the people who are foolish enough to think that you know about things."^[2]
Though he was raised in a socialist milieu and maintained a strong sympathy for labour, Zolf described himself politically as "a Diefenbaker, Bill Davis, Dalton Camp Red Tory."^[3] He worked for Camp^[3] in the late 1960s after the cancellation of This Hour Has Seven Days.
While retired from the CBC, he continued to contribute a column to the CBC's website until 2007. After leaving CBC Online he contributed occasional opinion pieces to the National Post. He also published several books during his lifetime, including memoirs and works of humorous political commentary.
Zolf is the father of David Zolf, and award-winning poet Rachel Zolf.

Bibliography

• Dance of the Dialectic (1973)
• Just Watch Me: Remembering Pierre Trudeau (1984)
• Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate (1985)
• Scorpions for Sale (1989)
• Zolf (1999)
• The Dialectical Dancer (2010)

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Sir Michael Gray, British army general died he was , 78.

Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray KCB, OBE, DL  was a senior British Army officer who was GOC South East England from 1985 to 1988, Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment from 1990 to 1993 and Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1995 to 1998 died he was , 78..

(3 May 1932 – 13 March 2011)

Michael Stuart Gray was born in Beverley, East Yorkshire. His father Lieutenant Frank Gray, RNVR was killed in action in 1940. He was educated at Beverley Grammar School, Christ's Hospital, Horsham and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
He enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1950. He was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1952 and served in Malaya for two years during the Malayan Emergency. He transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1955 and served in Cyprus, Suez, Jordan, Greece, Bahrain, Aden and Northern Ireland. Gray commanded the 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment from 1969 to 1971. He was Chief of Staff of 1st Armoured Division, BAOR from 1973 to 1975 before attending the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976. He was the last Commander of the 16th Parachute Brigade in 1977.
Gray was Head of British Army Staff and Military Attache in Washington and Military Advisor to the Governor of Bermuda from 1979 to 1981. He was GOC South West District which included command of the United Kingdom Mobile Force from 1981 to 1983. He was Chief of Staff, BAOR at Rheindahlen from 1984 to 1985.
Gray was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1985 and was GOC South East England and Commander of Joint Forces HQ at Aldershot until he retired from the Army in 1988. He was Honorary Colonel of 10th Parachute Battalion from 1984 to 1988 and Deputy Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment from 1986 to 1990.
He was Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment from 1990 to 1993. He was Chief Executive of Rainford Developments from 1990 to 1994. He organised the airborne forces contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landings on D Day, 6 June 1944. Gray was awarded the French Légion d'honneur in 1994. He was Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1995 to 1998. He was Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1997.
He became Chairman of the Airborne Assault Normandy Trust, which seeks to preserve the history of 6th Airborne Division in Normandy, in 1972. He had a leading role in the founding of a museum at Pegasus Bridge and in the restoration of the Merville Battery site.
He was associated with more than 30 charitable organisations including those for former members of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces. He lived in Pocklington, Yorkshire.
He was appointed KCB in 1986 and OBE in 1970.
Sir Michael Gray died 13 March 2011 at York District Hospital.^[1]

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Brian Lanker, American photojournalist, died from pancreatic cancer he was , 63.

Brian Lanker was an American photographer. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a black-and-white photo essay on childbirth for The Topeka Capital-Journal, including the photograph "Moment of Life".^[1] Lanker died at his home in Eugene, Oregon on March 13, 2011 after a brief bout of pancreatic cancer. He was 63.
His work appeared in Life and Sports Illustrated, as well as book projects, including I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, and Track Town, USA.^[4] He was the graphics director for The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene from 1974 to 1982.^[4]
Lanker is the father of musician Dustin Lanker.^[5]

 

(August 31, 1947 – March 13, 2011)

Works

Lanker, Brian (1999). I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang. ISBN 1556709234.

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Rick Martin Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), died from a heart attack he was , 59.

 Richard Lionel Martin was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1982 died from a heart attack he was , 59.. He was perhaps most famous for playing on the Sabres' French Connection line with Gilbert Perreault and Rene Robert.

 ( July 26, 1951 – March 13, 2011)

 

Playing career

Martin was drafted fifth overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft after a junior career with the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). He played 685 career NHL games, scoring 384 goals and 317 assists for 701 points. His best season was the 1974–75 NHL season when he scored 52 goals and 95 points in only 68 games. Martin scored at least 44 goals five times in his NHL career. Martin was selected to play in seven consecutive National Hockey League All-Star Games (1971–72, through 1977–78) and was selected as the official NHL All-Star First Team left wing in 1973–74 and 1974–75 and the official NHL All-Star Second Team left wing in 1975–76 and 1976–77.^[1] Martin holds the Buffalo Sabres franchise career records for hat tricks, four-goal games, 40-goal seasons, consecutive 40-goal seasons, 50-goal seasons (tied with Danny Gare), consecutive 50-goal seasons.^[2][3]
Martin was involved in probably one of the three most frightening injuries on Buffalo home ice (the others being when Clint Malarchuk's and Richard Zednik's in separate incidents each had their jugular vein lacerated). Dave Farrish of the New York Rangers hooked Martin around the neck from behind and kicked Martin's feet out from under him, causing Martin to hit his head on the ice. He was knocked unconscious, and went into convulsions. After that play, helmets became a much more common sight on the heads of his Sabre team-mates.
On November 8, 1980, his career was dealt a cataclysmic blow. In a game against the Washington Capitals in the Aud, Martin was racing in on a breakaway. Capitals forward Ryan Walter managed to trip Martin and no penalty was called. Capitals goalie Mike Palmateer, already way out of his crease, knocked Martin back down by kicking his knee, causing severe cartilage damage from which Martin would never fully recover.^[4]
Martin underwent surgery in Toronto and on March 10, 1981, Scotty Bowman traded Martin and Don Luce to the Kings for a pair of draft picks, one of which the Sabres used to get goalie Tom Barrasso in 1983. Martin played four games for the Los Angeles Kings before hanging up the skates. His number 7 was retired along with Rene Robert's #14 on November 15, 1995, flanking the #11 of Gilbert Perreault under a French Connection banner. On Oct. 25, 2005, Martin was inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.^[5] In 2010, in commemoration of the Sabres' 40th season, The Buffalo News ranked Martin number 4 out of the top 40 Sabres of all time, while he was voted #5 by fans.^[6] After his untimely death in 2011, the Sabres honored his memory by painting the number 7, the number Martin wore for most of his career with Buffalo, behind each goal at the HSBC Arena for the duration of the 2010-11 season.^[7]

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1968–69	Montreal Junior Canadiens	OHA		52	22	21	43	27		—	—	—	—	—
1969–70	Montreal Junior Canadiens	OHA		34	23	32	55	10		—	—	—	—	—
1970–71	Montreal Junior Canadiens	OHA		60	71	51	122	106		—	—	—	—	—
1971–72	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		73	44	30	74	39		—	—	—	—	—
1972–73	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		75	37	36	73	79		6	3	2	5	12
1973–74	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		78	52	34	86	38		—	—	—	—	—
1974–75	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		68	52	43	95	72		17	7	8	15	20
1975–76	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		80	49	37	86	67		9	4	7	11	12
1976–77	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		66	36	29	65	58		6	2	1	3	9
1977–78	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		65	28	35	63	16		7	2	4	6	13
1978–79	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		73	32	21	53	35		3	0	3	3	0
1979–80	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		80	45	34	79	54		14	6	4	10	8
1980–81	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		23	7	14	21	20		—	—	—	—	—
1980–81	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		1	1	1	2	0		1	0	0	0	0
1981–82	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		3	1	3	4	2		—	—	—	—	—
NHL totals				685	384	317	701	477		63	24	29	53	74

 Personal life

Rick and his wife were owners of Globalquest Solutions and Globalquest Staffing Solutions in Williamsville, New York.^[8]
Martin owned a bar/restaurant called Slapshot on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Rick Martin died on March 13, 2011, in Clarence, New York, from a heart attack while driving, a complication of hypertensive arteriosclreotic cardiovascular disease.^[9] He was 59 years old. He is survived by his wife Mikey, and his sons Cory, Josh, and Erick.^[10][11][12]

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Ritchie Pickett, New Zealand country singer died he was , 56.

Ritchie Pickett was a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who was born in Morrinsville, in the province of Waikato. Pickett has been described as one of New Zealand's "kings of country/rock".

(16 February 1955 – 13 March 2011)

He began playing in rock 'n' roll bands such as Graffiti, which toured New Zealand with singer Tom Sharplin in the mid-1970s, before joining heavy metal/prog rock band Think, with whom he recorded an album.
Think relocated to Sydney, Australia, where they broke up and Pickett formed his own band called Snuff. In 1981, Pickett was transported back to Waikato Hospital in New Zealand.
In the early 1980s, he formed country music band Ritchie Pickett & the Inlaws which toured New Zealand relentlessly and released an acclaimed LP, but disbanded in 1985. He was also a regular performer on the high-rating primetime television show That's Country.
Pickett fronted several Waikato bands through the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the Jones Boys, the Fat Band, Stingray Martini's Excellent Duckbeast (featuring Tim Armstrong) and the Disturbance, before working mainly under his own name.
In a newspaper article detailing Bay of Plenty music of the late 1980s it was reported, "Ruling the roost at the time – or at least Tauranga's most well-known performer thanks to a stint on TV and a major label album (LP of course) – was Ritchie Pickett, with his band the Jones Boys, featuring bassist/singer Chris Gunn."^[2]
Pickett finally released his debut solo album in 1998. As New Zealand rock historian John Dix wrote of local country music of the time, "It wasn't all alt. rock, hip hop and hard rock in the '90s. Country rock survived with recording acts like the Coalrangers (from the wild West Coast), Glen Moffatt, Ritchie Pickett, the Renderers and the Waltons. The most successful were the Warratahs, signed to Pagan."^[3]
In 2004, Pickett released a live album featuring his contributions from a New Zealand tour with fellow New Zealand songwriter Glen Moffatt and Australian roots songwriter Bill Chambers, father of Kasey Chambers. Five years later he was part of the band The Rattler, also featuring former members of Knightshade and the Furys, which released The Leaving.
Pickett died on 13 March 2011 at the age of 56.^[4]

Discography

Albums
Date of Release	Title	Label	Charted	Certification	Catalog Number
1976	We'll Give You A Buzz - Think	Atlantic	-	-	Z 2001
1984	Gone For Water - Ritchie Pickett & the Inlaws	RCA	-	-	VPL1 0476
1998	All Strung Out In A Bunch	Boatshed	-	-	BSRCD007
2004	The Wicked Piano Pumpin' Pickett	Barking Records	-	-	BRCD Woof 005
2009	The Leaving - The Rattler	GunJumper Records	-	-	-

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Nicholas Smisko, American clergyman, Head of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (since 1984), died from cancer he was , 75

Nicholas (Smisko)  was metropolitan bishop of Amissos and Primate of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA  died from cancer he was , 75.

(February 23, 1936 – March 13, 2011)

Early life

Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. After graduating from Perth Amboy High School, he entered Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania to study for the Holy Priesthood. Upon graduation, he was ordained on January 11,1959 by Bishop Orestes P. Chornock in Perth Amboy, N.J. His first pastorate was at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Windber, Pennsylvania, where he served until 1962

Priesthood and Episcopacy

A new phase of his life began when he embarked on a year's study at the renowned Theological School of Halki, Constantinople. During his stay in the city, the young priest was assigned by the late Patriarch Athenagoras I to serve the spiritual needs of the large Slavic Orthodox community in the Galata section of Istanbul. He also traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East, visiting the sacred sites of the Holy Land and living for a time on Mount Athos, the ancient monastic center of the Orthodox Church.
Upon his return to the United States, he resumed his studies at Youngstown State University, Ohio, and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He was then assigned as Prefect of Discipline at Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, and served several parishes in the Johnstown area, before relocating in 1971 to New York City, where he served as pastor of St. Nicholas Church.
He was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite in 1976, and was elected by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as Auxiliary Bishop for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA and was consecrated as Bishop of Amissos (modern day Samsun) on March 13, 1983.
Following the death of Bishop John (Martin) in September of 1984, Bishop Nicholas was chosen as the third ruling hierarch of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese and was enthroned in Christ the Saviour Cathedral by His Eminence, Archbishop Iakovos of America on April 19, 1985.
He was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan, by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on November 24, 1997.
Over his many years of service to Christ and His Holy Church, Metropolitan Nicholas proved to be a worthy laborer in the Vineyard of the Lord. In recognition for his labors he was the recipient of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Award, given by the Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia, the St. Sava Award from Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

Death

Metropolitan Nicholas died on March 13, 2011 at Windber Hospital Hospice in Windber, Pennsylvania, from complications from cancer.

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Jean Smith, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) died she was , 82.

Jean Marie Smith  was an outfielder and relief pitcher who played from 1948 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 128. lb., she batted and threw right handed died she was , 82..
Jean Smith entered the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1948, beginning her career at outfield and later doubling as a reliever until the final season of play in 1954. Regarded as a disciplined hitter and a daring base runner, she posted a robust .334 on-base percentage and a 1.77 walk-to-strikeout ratio, while utilizing her speed to snatch 194 stolen bases in 567 career games. A member of a championship team, she also played in five out of seven possible playoffs.

(May 9, 1928 – March 13, 2011)

Early life

Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Smith was the daughter of James C. and Marie (née Burnham) Smith. She attended Ann Arbor schools and graduated from Ann Arbor Pioneer High School in 1946. Athletics were her passion and as a 12-year-old she won the Ann Arbor singles table tennis tournament, and in 1943 she placed second in the state finals. A passionate fan of the Detroit Tigers, at age 15 she pitched for a softball team sponsored by Dad's Root Beer, which won the state championship in 1947. They lied about my age. You were supposed to be 16 to play the league, she explained in an interview. Playing softball during high school led to her professional life with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.^[3][4][5]

AAGPBL career

In 1947 Smith attended a tryout of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After being selected at a try-out camp in Grand Rapids I was sent a contract in the mail for me to sign and also to be signed with consent with my parents or guardian. Both my parents gave me their permission, she recalled. For her career, Smith was able to play well in all three outfield positions, mainly at center field. She then attended the 1948 spring training in Opa-locka, Florida, and was assigned to the Kenosha Comets.^[5]
Smith was sent to the Fort Wayne Daisies during the 1948 midseason, just in time for playoffs, but Fort Wayne lost the first round to the Rockford Peaches, four games to one. She batted a combined .168 average with 36 runs and 22 runs batted in in 104 games.^[6]
In 1949 Smith also was used as a relief pitcher, because Daisies manager Dick Bass thought he had a hard fastball and a good curve. I was a thrower and not a pitcher, she admitted. In that season, she collected a 3.38 earned run average in eight innings of work while playing 25 games at outfield. Fort Wayne advanced again to the playoffs, losing to the Grand Rapids Chicks in the best-of-three first round series.^[4][7]
Smith opened 1950 with the Peoria Redwings. She finished with a 2-0 record and a 1.80 ERA in four relief appearances. As a hitter, she went 58-for-267 (.217) with 36 runs and 14 RBI in 89 games, including 10 doubles and three triples, while stealing 12 bases.^[7]
Smith had his first good season in 1951, collecting a .233 average with 10 doubles and 38 stolen bases, driving in 30 runs while scoring 50 times in 93 games. She made 18 appearances on the mound, posting a 7-7 record and a 2.92 ERA in a career-high 111 innings.^[7]
For the next three years Smith played for the Grand Rapids Chicks, a strong team managed by Woody English, which included talented players as Jean Geissinger, Pepper Paire, Doris Satterfield, Dorothy Stolze, Connie Wisniewski and Alma Ziegler. Smith shared outfield duties with Geissinger, Satterfield and Wisniewski, hitting .196 in 46 games while going 1-2 as a reliever. Grand Rapids advanced to the playoffs, but was swept by the South Bend Blue Sox in the best-of-three series on strong pitching by Jean Faut.^[7]
Smith had a solid season in 1953, hitting .227 with 73 stolen bases and a .343 OBP in a career-high 114 games, being surpassed only by Fort Wayne's Betty Foss for the most stolen bases (80). She also posted career numbers in hits (91), runs (86), doubles (20), triples (5) and steals, while walking 71 times and tying for third in doubles. In the best-of-three first round series, third place Kalamazoo Lassies dispossed of first place Fort Wayne and second place Grand Rapids drew fourth place Rockford. In the best-of-three final series, Grand Rapids swept Kalamazoo behind complete game victories by Mary Lou Studnicka and Earlene Risinger. In Game 1, Studnicka limited the Lassies to seven hits in a 7–2 victory, while Risinger drove in two runs and struck out nine to whip Kalamazoo, 4–3, in a cold weather, shortened seven-inning game. Smith went 3-for-10 and scored a run in the finals.^[7] In her final season of 1954, Smith batted .252 (78-for-309) with nine triples, three home runs 56 RBI and 88 walks, all career numbers. She also scored 74 runs and stole 28 bases, while collecting a notable .397 on-base percentage in 88 game appearances. Fort Wayne repeated the regular season title and faced Grand Rapids in the first round of the playoffs, while second place South Bend played fourth place Kalamazoo. As a member of the champion team, Davis played in the All-Star Game against an All-Stars team selected by the league's managers. Fort Wayne and Kalamazoo defeated their respective opponents and advanced to the best-of-five final series.^[7]

1954 Championship Title

In Game 1 of the best-of-five series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17-9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from June Peppas, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben and Fern Shollenberger also slugged one each, and Chris Ballingall belted a grand slam. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18-7 record with 3.23 ERA for the Daisies during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. Katie Horstman connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate Joanne Weaver slugged one.
The Daisies bounced back in Game 2, hitting five home runs against the Lassies to win, 11–4. Horstman started the feat with a two-run home run to open the score in the first inning. In the rest of the game, Betty Weaver Foss added two homers with five RBI, while her sister Joanne and Geissinger added solo shots. Peppas, Nancy Mudge and Dorothy Schroeder homered for Kalamazoo.
In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at bats, driving in four runs.
In Game 4, starter Gloria Cordes helped Kalamazoo to tie the series, pitching a complete game victory over the Daisies, 6–5. Habben drove in two runs who marked the difference, while Kline suffered her second loss of the Series.
In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by a 8–5 margin to gave the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game. She received support from Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight inning. Peppas finished with a .450 average in the Series and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the twelve-year history of the league.^[8]

Bill Allington All-Stars

When the league was unable to continue in 1955, Smith joined several other players selected by former Daisies manager Bill Allington to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans All-Stars. The team played 100 games, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan. Besides Smith, the Allington All-Stars included players as Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Gertrude Dunn, Betty Foss, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder and Joanne Weaver, among others.^[9][10]

Life after baseball

Following her baseball career, Smith settled down in Harbor Springs, Michigan, where she worked as a secretary at the Harbor Springs IGA and as a bookkeeper for Woodland Buildersand. She also mowed the meadows at Barnyard Golf on her John Deere tractor until retirement in 1992.^[3][4]
Since 1980, Peppas and a group of friends began assembling a list of names and addresses of former AAGPBL players. Her work turned into a newsletter that resulted in the league’s first-ever reunion in Chicago, Illinois in 1982. Starting from that reunion, a Players Association was formed five years later and many former AAGPBL players continued to enjoy reunions, which became annual events in 1998. Smith attended the first reunion and regained communication with her teammates and old friends. Of the approximately 560 women who had played in the league, most had lost touch with the others, at least not until the reunion held in Chicago. The association was largely responsible for the opening of an AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, opened in 1988, which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual personalities. Smith, along with the rest of the league's girls, is now enshrined in the Hall.^[8]
Jean Smith died in Harbor Springs, Michigan at the age of 82, following a brief illness.^[3]

Career statistics

Batting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG
567	1853	320	396	67	18	13	174	194	333	188	.215	.334	.290

Pitching

GP	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	WHIP
39	10	10	.500	3.61	172	137	92	69	129	45	1.55

Outfield fielding

GP	PO	A	E	TC	DP	FA
538	953	78	47	1078	15	.987

Playoff hitting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB
21	63	9	6	1	0	0	0	6

Sources

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