Jean Faut (1925–2023), AAGPBL pitcher with two perfect games
Jean Faut was a star pitcher with the South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
- Died: February 28, 2023 (Who else died on February 28?)
- Details of death: Died at the age of 97.
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Faut was an athlete in high school, but she didn’t play softball, instead competing in track and field, basketball, and field hockey. She learned her devastating pitch throwing rocks at telephone poles as a child, and she honed it in batting practice with the school’s boys’ baseball team. After graduation, Faut was working in a clothing factory when she decided to try out for the AAGPBL in 1946. Assigned to the South Bend Blue Sox, she became a star of the team, known for her curve ball. In 1951 and 1953, Faut pitched perfect games. They were two of only five perfect games in AAGPBL history, and Faut was the only professional baseball player, male or female, to have pitched two perfect games. She helped the Blue Sox to two consecutive championship titles, in 1951 and 1952. Faut retired in 1953, a year before the AAGPBL folded. In later years, she worked as a researcher at the University of Notre Dame and Miles Laboratories.
