Jean Ann Havlish ["Grasshopper"] (born November 23, 1935) is a former female shortstop who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
[1][2] A slick-fielding shortstop, Jean Havlish joined the Fort Wayne Daisies during the last three seasons of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
While attending Washington High School, she developed as a multi-talented athlete, playing hockey, football, basketball, baseball and softball and competed in speed skating.
After three tryouts for three different teams, Havlish went back to school and entered the league in 1952 with the Daisies, by then managed by Bill Allington.
[1][6] In 1992, Havlish, Kay Heim and Nancy Mudge, two other Minnesota residents and former AAGPBL players, were invited to throw out the first pitch in a game Angels-Twins played at the Metrodome.
The trio also was honored by the Colorado Silver Bullets all-female baseball team in their 1994 inaugural season, in which they threw out the first ball pitch of a game celebrated in Saint Paul.