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1933–2017 · South Bend, 1950–1954
Glenna Sue Kidd was born September 2, 1933, in Choctaw, Arkansas, and was pitching for the Clinton High School boys' team at fifteen when the Springfield Sallies' touring side signed her after a Little Rock tryout in June 1949. She reached South Bend on August 1, 1950, and served her apprenticeship behind Faut and Faralla — part of the 1951 champions' young staff, briefly loaned to Battle Creek that season — before three front-line years: 13–7 with a 2.00 earned run average in 1952, 13–15 with a 2.37 mark and a team-high 258 innings in the bare season of 1953, and nine wins in 1954. Her career line closed at 47–45 with a 2.49 earned run average. The games that made her name here are told in the team history — the semifinal clincher against Grand Rapids in 1952, the walk-off single she hit as a right fielder in the replayed final game that same fall, the doubleheader she swept alone before five thousand at Playland on July 4, 1953. After baseball she taught and coached for twenty-five years in Logansport, Indiana, and filmgoers have seen her without knowing it: she had a bit part in the 1992 film of her league. She died in Choctaw on May 4, 2017.
Sources
- Jim Sargent, SABR biography of Sue Kidd — the Clinton boys' team, the signing, the season lines and the signature games, the Logansport career.
- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, player profile of Sue Kidd — the career line (47–45, 2.49), and the 1954 mark as 9–5 against 9–6 in one Arkansas account.
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas — the life, and the bit part in the 1992 film.