Harold Greiner (July 7, 1907 – July 17, 1993) was a restaurant entrepreneur, baseball manager and softball coach.[1][2]
| Harold Greiner | |
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| All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |
| Manager | |
| Born: July 7, 1907 Fort Wayne, Indiana | |
| Died: July 17, 1993 (aged 86) Fort Wayne, Indiana | |
| Career statistics | |
| Managing record | 52-57 |
| W-L% | .477 |
| Games behind | 23 |
| Place | 5th |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Greiner was the owner of Bob Inn Restaurant and Bakery. He also coached softball for ten years and sponsored a women's team that won state fastpitch softball titles in 1944 and 1945.[1]
In addition, Greiner scouted for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and contributed to bringing the Fort Wayne Daisies to his hometown in 1945.[3] He later became part of the AAGPBL board of directors and then managed the Daisies during the 1949 season.[4] Some of the players recruited by Greiner for the league include Maxine Kline, June Peppas and Kathryn Vonderau, among others.[5]
Greiner appears in the documentary A League of Their Own, aired on PBS in 1987,[6] which inspired a film with the same title released in 1992.[7] Both the documentary and the film brought a rejuvenated interest to the extinct baseball circuit. Then, the AAGPBL received their long overdue recognition in 1988, when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated a permanent display in Cooperstown, New York to honor the entire league rather than individual baseball personalities.[8]
Sources edit
- ^ a b "All-American League Girls Professional Baseball League website – Harold Greiner entry".
- ^ People Search: Greiner, Harold – Fort Wayne, Indiana, Allen County
- ^ 1945 Fort Wayne Daisies
- ^ 1949 Fort Wayne Daisies
- ^ SABR Biography Project – June Peppas entry by Jim Sargent
- ^ IMDb.com – A League of Their Own (1987)
- ^ IMDb.com – A League of Their Own (1992)
- ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History