La Ferne Ellis Price (January 26, 1926 – May 27, 2016) was an infielder and pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1944 season.

[4] Other of her most significant accomplishments included The Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award from ISU in 1987, The Girls and Women’s Sport Presidential Citation in 1983, and inductions into the National Girls and Women’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Indiana State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.

[1] On her journey through academia, she authored The Wonder of Motion: A Sense of Life for Woman;[1] a book about women’s mental and physical commitments in all facets of sport, which was released in 1970 and reedited in 1983.

[5] The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is now a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988 that honors those who were part of this unique experience.

[1] Ferne also has an infamous first cousin, Perry Edward Smith, one of two men who killed the Clutter family in Kansas.