[3] Born in Chicago, Illinois, D'Angelo grew up playing sandlot ball with her neighborhood kids at an early age, most of them boys, but did not start participating in an organized league until she was at high school.
The next year she joined the Raab Taylors and received a symbolic emolument as a player, when they paid her $1.00 a night for playing for the team.
Of these, only 280 were invited to the final try-outs at Wrigley Field in Chicago where 60 were chosen to become the first women to ever play professional baseball.
In a moment of the season, she made the headlines after hitting a home run to win a game for the Blue Sox.
[7][8] But D'Angelo developed prestige as the best contact hitter around when she struck out only three times in 358 at bats (once every 119.3 at-bats) to set an all-time single season record.
In her spare time she enjoyed playing golf and actively contributed to society by volunteering in her community, but a knee replacement surgery in 1992 made her less mobile.