Betty Carveth

Who is Betty Carveth?

Betty Carveth [Dunn] is a former Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 57 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.

In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4-11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.

In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also 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 in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Betty Carveth Dunn still lives in Edmonton and has continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, other Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women’s Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.