Lois Joy Youngen (born October 23, 1933) is a former catcher and outfielder who played from 1951 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
[1][2] Born in Westfield Center, Ohio, Lois Youngen grew up dreaming of being a ballplayer while admiring the Cleveland Indians major league team, as well her interest in sports increased as she got older.
Her father, who had pitched for the Kent State University team in the 1920s, was also an avid baseball fanatic and encouraged Lois by teaching her how to swing and catch, while she accustomed to play sandlot ball with the neighborhood kids.
The team, led by former Daisies manager Bill Allington, included selected AAGPBL players as Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Gertrude Dunn, Betty Foss, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder and Joanne Weaver, among others.
The Allington All-Stars played 100 games between 1954 and 1958, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan.