Doris Cook
Baseball Player
1931 –
Who is Doris Cook?
Doris Cook [×´Little Cookie×´] is a former pitcher and outfielder who played from 1949 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 1 in, 130 lb., she batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
Doris Cook joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1949 at the age of 17, following in the footsteps of her older sister, Donna Cook, who played in the league from 1946 to 1954.
Born in Muskegon, Michigan, Doris was one of twelve children into the family of Sidney and Daisy Cook. She played in a city softball league at age 14, before being scouted by the league under recommendation of her sister. She was signed a contract and relocated to the Springfield Sallies rookie team, a traveling developmental squad of the AAGPBL, which entertained crowds across the country, playing exhibition games before Major League Baseball contests.
Cook won her first game as a pitcher on the tour, which started in Chicago and ended up in Canada. She played in Yankee Stadium and Griffith Stadium. We traded autographed balls with Tommy Henrich of the Yankees, she recalled in an interview.
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