[1] In her high school yearbook, she was dubbed “Babe Didrickson the second.”[3] After graduation in 1934, she pitched 49 straight wins for the Georgie Porgies, a local softball team.
During the winter of 1935, she played forward with a couple of men’s basketball teams, the Council Bluffs Merchants and Hal McKain’s Sportsmen.
[1] Korgan joined the women’s amateur fast-pitch softball circuit in 1935, pitching for the Syracuse (Nebraska) Bluebirds alongside teammate Marjorie Dickey, a power-hitting second baseman who would become the mother of Vice President Dick Cheney.
[7] While pitching for Higgins, when she was not on the mound Korgan worked on an assembly line making precision parts for parking meters in Tulsa.
[10] After the championship, Korgan pitched a 12-0 exhibition game against an all-star team from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in October 1941, dramatically retiring the side with two consecutive strikeouts in the last inning after sending all her fielders to the bench.
In the 1944 national tournament, the Jax Brewery Maids were eliminated early and finished thirteenth, breaking their two-year run of championships.
[20] The Brewery Maids repeated in 1947 for their third straight title as Korgan went 3-0, pitching two shutouts and winning the final game against the Phoenix Ramblers, 6-4.
[23][24][25] In 1954, Korgan came out of retirement to pitch for the New Orleans Jurisch Transfers and was named most valuable player of the southwestern regional tournament.
The following year she won the southwestern regional most valuable player award again and led the Transfers to ninth place in the Amateur Softball Association national tournament, pitching 25 strikeouts in 18 innings.
But the finest tribute to her was a cheering section organized by the Houston Richey girls, a team she had beaten two consecutive nights … [they] yelled their hearts out for the popular Korgan.
[27]New Orleans Item sports columnist Scoop Kennedy wrote that Korgan had “a magnetic personality and moves about with the grace of a leopard.
[34] Nina Korgan passed away at the age of 93 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, and is buried at Lewis Township Cemetery in Council Bluffs, Iowa.