[1] Born in Oquawka, Illinois, Joyce Ricketts barely got a chance to play before the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded after the 1954 season.

Grand Rapids, with Woody English at the helm, swept the Kalamazoo Lassies in the final best-of-three series.

[3] In the series opening, Ricketts hit an RBI-single in the bottom of the fourth to put his team up (3–2), an advantage that was never lost and ended up winning the game, 5–2.

Late in the inning, she used her strong arm from right field to throw out the potential tying run at home plate.

Pitcher Earlene Risinger went the distance and struck out nine Lassies players, including a bases loaded strikeout to retire slugger Doris Sams for the last out of the game.