A lifetime .225 hitter she made good contact, hitting safely more frequently with runners on base or when the team was behind in the score, as her 400 runs batted in ties her in fourth place with Elizabeth Mahon on the all-time list, behind Dorothy Schroeder (431), Inez Voyce (422) and Eleanor Callow (407).
She attended the University Senior High School, located in West Los Angeles, and continued excelling in sports, playing on semi-professional softball teams along with Faye Dancer, with whom she was recruited by Bill Allington for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Then she found herself on the move again, this time to the Racine Belles from 1946 through 1947 and then the Grand Rapids Chicks from 1948 to the 1952 midseason, when she returned to the Daisies until her final season in 1953.
[1] In 1946 Paire hit a solid .238 with 59 RBI in 101 games for the league champion Belles, in a year characterized by strong pitching and low batting averages.
Batting crown winner Dorothy Kamenshek led hitters with a .316 mark while pitchers Connie Wisniewski and Joanne Winter tied for a league-lead 33 wins.
[1] Paire was one of two hundred players to attend the first AAGPBL spring training outside the United States, which was held in 1947 in Cuba at the Gran Stadium de La Habana.
Paire retired in 1963 to Van Nuys, California, and served as the spokesperson for the Women's National Adult Baseball Association, for female players between the ages of 18 and 65.
The theme, named Victory Song, was popularized in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall and starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell and Lori Petty.
[4][9][10][11] In December 2009, Paire released her own book, Dirt in the Skirt, to set the record straight on her life and fellow players from the AAGPBL.