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'''Josephine "Jo Jo" D'Angelo''' (November 23, 1924 – August 18, 2013) was an American baseball [[left fielder]] who played from {{baseball year|1943}} through {{baseball year|1944}} in the [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League]]. Listed at {{
She was one of the sixty original players to join the AAGPBL for its [[1943 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season|inaugural season]]. D'Angelo set an all-time record in the league for the fewest strikeouts in a single season. As an outfielder, she had sure hands and a strong and accurate arm for balls up the middle and [[double play]]s.<ref>''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book'' – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|0-7864-3747-2}}</ref>
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Following her graduation at [[Harper High School (Chicago, Illinois)|Harper High School]], D'Angelo took her first job at age 18, working in the steel mills from 1942 to 1943. The money the young steel worker received allowed her to make a down payment toward college savings. By the time, [[Philip K. Wrigley]], founder of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, had [[scout (sport)|scouts]] all over the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] signing girls for tryouts. About 500 of them 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. D'Angelo was one of them, and was assigned to the [[South Bend Blue Sox]]. The other founding teams were the [[Kenosha Comets]], [[Racine Belles]] and [[Rockford Peaches]].<ref>''Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball'' – Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Paperback, 438pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|0-7864-2100-2}}</ref><ref>[http://www.aagpbl.org/history/league-history All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History]. Retrieved 2019-03-29.</ref>
D'Angelo batted a .221 [[batting average (baseball)|average]] with a .324 [[on-base percentage]] and 53 [[stolen base]]s in her rookie season. She appeared in a team second best 104 games, [[run batted in|driving in]] 38 runs while [[run (baseball)|scoring]] 62 times. She also finished ninth in the league in stolen bases and tied for seventh in runs scored. In a moment of the season, she made the headlines after hitting a [[home run]] to win a game for the Blue Sox.<ref name=RecordBook>All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book</ref><ref>[http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/south-bend-blue-sox/1943 1943 South Bend Blue Sox]. Retrieved 2019-03-29.</ref>
But D'Angelo developed prestige as the best contact hitter around
She also appeared in the first [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League All-Star Team|AAGPBL All-Star Game]] on July 1, 1943, which coincidentally became the first night game ever played at Wrigley Field. The contest was played under temporary lights between two teams composed of Kenosha and Racine players against Rockford and South Bend players.<ref>[
Since 1988 she is part of ''Women in Baseball'', a permanent display based at the [[Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]] in [[Cooperstown, New York]], which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She died in 2013, aged 88, in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]].<ref name=":2">{{cite news|url=https://www.pride.com/box-office/2013/09/03/jojo-dangelo-real-life-inspiration-league-their-own-dies-88|last=Brydum|first=Sunnivie|title=JoJo D'Angelo, Real-life Inspiration for 'A League of Their Own,' Dies at 88|work=[[Here Media#Pride.com|Pride]]|date=2013-09-03|accessdate=2019-03-29}}</ref> D'Angelo was a lesbian.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
==Career statistics==
'''Batting'''
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![[Games played|GP]]!![[At bat|AB]]!![[Run (baseball)|R]]!![[Hit (baseball)|H]]!![[Double (baseball)|2B]]!![[Triple (baseball)|3B]]!![[Home run|HR]]!![[Run batted in|RBI]]!![[Stolen base|SB]]!![[Total bases|TB]]!![[Base on balls|BB]]!![[Strikeout|SO]]!![[Batting average (baseball)|BA]]!![[On-base percentage|OBP]]!![[Slugging average|SLG]]▼
▲![[Games played|GP]]!![[At bat|AB]]!![[Run (baseball)|R]]!![[Hit (baseball)|H]]!![[Double (baseball)|2B]]!![[Triple (baseball)|3B]]!![[Home run|HR]]!![[Run batted in|RBI]]!![[Stolen base|SB]]!![[Total bases|TB]]!![[Base on balls|BB]]!![[Strikeout|SO]]!![[Batting average|BA]]!![[On-base percentage|OBP]]!![[Slugging average|SLG]]
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| 144 || 499 || 73 || 100 || 9 || 2 || 2 || 47 || 62 || 119 || 67 || 11 || .200 || .295 || .238
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'''Fielding'''
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==Sources==
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