By Curtis Galbraith

Remembering Betty Carveth Dunn

Feb 21, 2019 | 12:06 PM

We are remembering Betty Carveth Dunn today.
 
The Grande Prairie-born and raised baseball player died at age 93 on January 27 in Edmonton, according to her obituary in the Edmonton Journal.
 
Carveth Dunn spent the 1945 season in the old All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the same circuit depicted in the 1992 movie A League of Their Own.
 
She was with the Rockford Peaches and Fort Wayne Daisies, according to her biography on the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame website.
 
We got a chance to talk to her about those times in March of 2017 after she was named to the Hall.
 
“There’s lots of things to remember. The good times, how popular we were with our little dresses and how we slid into a base. We didn’t have any protection at all for sliding into bases. We were supposed to act like ladies and play like men.”
 
She also told us that women in sports had come a long way, but there is still some work to do.
 
 “Here in Edmonton, there were fastball teams and not too many other women’s sports teams at that time. That’s why we got all the publicity because there (was no) hockey. Soccer was unheard of at that time. That’s why I coached Little League because there was nothing for the boys except baseball. There was no soccer”
 
Carveth Dunn was also the first woman to coach Little League baseball in Edmonton, according to her Hall of Fame bio. Her funeral was held February 6 in Edmonton.