Patricia Barringer

Patricia Barringer (September 14, 1924 – March 31, 2007) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer.

In the 1940s, she held a national Amateur Athletic Union swimming record and trained under guidance of former Olympic gold medal winner Johnny Weissmuller.

[1][2] Barringer entered the league in 1947 with the Muskegon Lassies, playing a few games at second base before becoming a chaperone for the next six years.

[3] She opened 1948 with the Chicago Colleens, and agreed to manage and serve as chaperone for them when it was converted into a player development team.

[1] After baseball, she spent thirty years in the financial field as an auditor and tax accountant.