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Harold Greiner

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Harold Greiner
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Manager
Born: (1907-07-07)July 7, 1907
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Died: July 17, 1993(1993-07-17) (aged 86)
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Batted: n/a
Threw: n/a
Career statistics
Managing record52-57
W-L%  .477
Games behind     23
Place    5th
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Harold Greiner (July 7, 1907 – July 17, 1993) was a restaurant entrepreneur, baseball manager and softball coach.[1][2]

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

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  1. ^ a b "All-American League Girls Professional Baseball League website – Harold Greiner entry".
  2. ^ People Search: Greiner, Harold – Fort Wayne, Indiana, Allen County
  3. ^ 1945 Fort Wayne Daisies
  4. ^ 1949 Fort Wayne Daisies
  5. ^ SABR Biography Project – June Peppas entry by Jim Sargent
  6. ^ IMDb.com – A League of Their Own (1987)
  7. ^ IMDb.com – A League of Their Own (1992)
  8. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History