Catherine Bennett was a female Canadian pitcher who played from 1943 through 1944 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 120 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Bennett was one of the original players to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League for its inaugural season. During World War II, Wrigley was in charge both of the Wrigley Company and the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball club. Wrigley decided to found the league as a promotional sideline to maintain interest in baseball as the military draft was depleting Major League rosters of first-line players. Wrigley had scouts all over the United States, Canada and even Cuba signing girls for tryouts. About 500 girls attended the call. Of these, only 280 were invited to the final try-outs at Wrigley Field in Chicago, where 60 were chosen to become the first women to ever play professional baseball. The league started in 1943 with four teams: Kenosha Comets, Racine Belles, Rockford Peaches and South Bend Blue Sox, and each team was made up of fifteen girls. Bennett survived the final cut and was assigned to Kenosha. 

September 4th, 1920 in (Age 104)