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{{Infobox Minor League Baseball
| name = Fort Wayne Daisies
| firstseason = 1945
| lastseason = 1954
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| city = Fort Wayne, Indiana
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| uniformlogo = FortWayneDaisies_caplogo.png
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| past league = [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League]]
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| owner = AAGPBL
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| pastparks = [[North Side High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)|North Side High School]] (1945–1946) [[List of parks in Fort Wayne, Indiana|Memorial Park]] (1946–1954)
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[[File:1953 Fort Wayne Daisies.jpg|thumb|323x323px| '''1953 Fort Wayne Daisies''' '''Front, L-R:''' [[Jean Geissinger]] (CF), [[Rita Briggs]] (C/OF), [[Jean Havlish]] (SS), [[Alice Blaski]] (utility), [[Delores Brumfield]] (IF), [[Pepper Paire|Lavonne Paire]] (C), [[Shirley Crites]] (3B), [[Wilma Briggs]] (LF), [[Dolly Vanderlip]] (P). '''Back, L-R:''' [[Bill Allington]] (manager), [[Maxine Kline]] (P), [[Katie Horstman]] (UT), [[Jean Weaver]] (P/3B), [[Jaynne Bittner]] (P), [[Joanne Weaver]] (RF), [[Betty Foss|Betty Weaver Foss]] (1B), [[Mary Taylor (baseball)|Mary Taylor]] (OF), [[Pat Scott]] (P), [[Doris Tetzlaff]] (chaperone).|alt=]]
The '''Fort Wayne Daisies''' were a women's professional baseball team based in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]] that played from {{baseball year|1945}} through {{baseball year|1954}} as members of the [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League]].

==History==
The Daisies represented [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]], and their home games were played at [[North Side High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)|North Side High School]] (1945–1946) and [[List of parks in Fort Wayne, Indiana|Memorial Park]] (1946–1954).
[[File:Dick Bass with members of the Fort Wayne Daisies baseball team- Opa-locka, Florida (3253307090).jpg|thumb|323x323px|Dick Bass with members of the Fort Wayne Daisies baseball team- [[Opa-locka, Florida]] on April 22, 1948|alt=]]
Daisy uniforms often changed from one season to the next, away uniforms having been yellow, pink, and brown during various years. Early Daisy uniforms featured a circular emblem of the Fort Wayne city seal in the center of the chest. This was replaced in later years with a patch reading "DAISIES". In the final years of the league, the Daisy uniform changed to a center seam running down the middle of the dress with an F and W on the front.

The team debuted in the [[1945 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season|1945 season]], replacing the departed [[Minneapolis Millerettes]]. The Daisies went 62–47 in their debut and finished four and a half games behind the first place [[Rockford Peaches]].

Even though the Daisies made it to the playoffs in every year from 1948 to 1954, ending in first place from 1951 through 1954, they failed to win a championship title.
[[File:All American Girls Professional Baseball League player Marg Callaghan sliding into home plate as umpire Norris Ward watches- Opa-locka, Florida (3250951077) (cropped).jpg|thumb|323x323px|Marg Callaghan of the Fort Wayne Daisies sliding into home plate as umpire Norris Ward watches in Opa-locka, Florida on April 22, 1948]]
Among its notable players were the sisters [[Betty Foss]] and [[Joanne Weaver]], who were able to win the final five batting championships of the league and two [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Player of the Year Award|Player of the Year]] awards. With [[Helen Callaghan]] leading all hitters in 1945, the Daisies amassed six batting crowns to set a league record.

Other players of note included pitchers [[Jaynne Bittner]], [[Maxine Kline]] and [[Dottie Wiltse Collins|Dorothy Wiltse Collins]]; catchers [[Rita Briggs]] and [[Pepper Paire|Lavonne Paire]]; shortstop [[Dottie Schroeder|Dorothy Schroeder]], center fielder [[Faye Dancer]], and sluggers [[Wilma Briggs]] and [[Jean Geissinger]].

==All-time players roster==
:'''''Bold''' denotes members of the inaugural roster''

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*[[Velma Abbott]]
*[[Evelyn Adams]]
*[[Melba Alspaugh]]
*[[Isabel Alvarez]]
*[[Lavone Anson]]
*[[Lenna Arnold]]
*[[Phyllis Baker]]
*[[Lois Barker]]
*[[Kathryn Beare]]
*[[Lottie Beck]]
*[[Jaynne Bittner]]
*[[Alice Blaski]]
*[[Kay Blumetta]]
*[[Phyllis Bookout]]
*[[Rita Briggs]]
*[[Wilma Briggs]]
*[[Carol Brown (baseball)|Carol Brown]]
*[[Delores Brumfield]]
*[[Shirley Burkovich]]
*[[Patricia Burton]]
*'''[[Helen Callaghan]]'''
*'''[[Marge Callaghan|Margaret Callaghan]]'''
*[[Georgia Campbell]]
*[[Jean Campbell (baseball)|Jean Campbell]]
*[[Virginia Carver]]
*'''[[Betty Carveth]]'''
*[[Donna Cook]]
*[[Dorothy Cook]]
*[[Shirley Crites]]
*[[Sarah Mavis Dabbs]]
*'''[[Faye Dancer]]'''
*[[Alice DeCambra]]
*[[Lillian DeCambra]]
*[[Mildred Deegan]]
*[[Audrey Deemer]]
*[[Thelma Eisen]]
*[[Lillian Faralla]]
*[[Meryle Fitzgerald]]
*[[Betty Foss]]
*[[Barbara Gates]]
*[[Jean Geissinger]]
*[[Beulah Anne Georges]]
*Betty Gernert
*'''[[Audrey Haine]]'''
*[[Elise Harney]]
*[[Jean Havlish]]
*[[Ruby Heafner]]
*[[Joyce Hill]]
*[[Nancy Hodgin]]
*[[Alice Hoover]]
*[[Katie Horstman|Catherine Horstman]]
*'''[[Lillian Jackson]]'''
*Alice Janowski
*[[Frances Janssen]]
*'''[[Arleene Johnson]]'''
*[[Marilyn C. Jones|Marilyn Jones]]
*[[Daisy Junor]]
*'''[[Vivian Kellogg]]'''
*[[Beatrice Kemmerer]]
*[[Helen Ketola]]
*[[Maxine Kline]]
*[[Theresa Kobuszewski]]
*[[Phyllis Koehn]]
*[[Irene Kotowicz]]
*'''[[Dorothy Kovalchick]]'''
*[[Ruth Kramer]]
*[[Marie Kruckel]]
*[[Noella Leduc]]
*'''[[Annabelle Lee]]'''
*[[Rhoda Leonard]]
*'''[[Ruth Lessing]]'''
*[[Alta Little]]
*[[Betty Luna]]
*[[Helene Machado]]
*[[Betty McKenna]]
*[[Marie Mahoney]]
*[[Kathleen Malach]]
*[[Mirtha Marrero]]
*'''[[Doris Marsh]]'''
*[[Ruth Matlack]]
*[[Mildred Meacham]]
*[[Naomi Meier]]
*[[Norma Metrolis]]
*[[Eleanor Moore]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (M–R)#M|Mary Moraty]]
*[[Nancy Mudge]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (M–R)#M|Mary Nelson]]
*[[Donna Norris (baseball)|Donna Norris]]
*'''[[Penny O'Brian]]'''
*'''[[Pepper Paire|Lavonne Paire]]'''
*[[June Peppas]]
*[[Betty Petryna]]
*[[Marjorie Pieper]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (M–R)#P|Bertha Podolski]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (M–R)#R|Marie Richardson]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (M–R)#R|Georgiana Rios]]
*[[Mary Rountree]]
*[[Patricia Roy]]
*'''[[Irene Ruhnke]]'''
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (S–Z)#S|Toni Sachetti]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (S–Z)#S|Ellen Schallern]]
*[[Dorothy Schroeder]]
*[[Pat Scott]]
*[[Jean Smith (baseball)|Jean Smith]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (S–Z)#S|Adele Stahley]]
*[[Lee Surkowski]]
*[[Mary Taylor (baseball)|Mary Taylor]]
*[[Norma Taylor]]
*'''[[Yolande Teillet]]'''
*[[Doris Tetzlaff]]
*[[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players (S–Z)#T|Helen Thomas]]
*[[Mava Lee Thomas]]
*[[Alice Tognatti]]
*'''[[Betty Trezza]]'''
*[[Betty Tucker]]
*[[Dolly Vanderlip]]
*[[Kathryn Vonderau]]
*[[Helen Walulik]]
*[[Nancy Warren (baseball)|Nancy Warren]]
*[[Evelyn Wawryshyn]]
*[[Jean Weaver]]
*[[Joanne Weaver]]
*[[Mary Weddle]]
*[[Marie Wegman]]
*[[Shirley Weierman]]
*[[Margaret Wenzell]]
*[[Betty Whiting]]
*[[Ruth Williams]]
*'''[[Dottie Wiltse Collins|Dorothy Wiltse]]'''
*[[Elsie Wingrove]]
*[[Trois Wood]]
*[[Lois Youngen]]
*'''[[Agnes Zurowski]]'''
{{div col end}}

==Managers==
{|
|-
| * [[Bill Wambsganss]]     || 1945 1946
|-
| * [[List of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League managers|George Johnson]] || 1947 [first half]
|-
| * [[William Rohrer]] || 1947 [second half]
|-
| * [[Dick Bass (baseball)|Dick Bass]] || 1948
|-
| * [[Harold Greiner]] * [[Vivian Kellogg]] || 1949 [first half] 1949 [second half]
|-
|* [[Mary Rountree]] || 1950 [first half]
|-
|* [[Max Carey]] || 1950 [second half] 1951
|-
| * [[Jimmie Foxx]] || 1952
|-
| * [[Bill Allington]] || 1953 1954
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[History of sports in Fort Wayne, Indiana]]

==Sources==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724213445/http://aagpbl.org/index.cfm/pages/league/12/league-history All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History]
*[http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/teams/by-name/fort-wayne-daisies/4 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Fort Wayne Daisies seasons]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140902231116/http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/search All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Manager/Player profile search results]
*[http://www.star-collector.net/sports/sportspageaagpbl.htm AAGPBL Collectors]
*[http://everything2.com/title/All-American+Girls+Professional+Baseball+League AAGPBL Everything]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080907064620/http://www.thediamondangle.com/archive/may04/weddle.html The Diamond Angle – AAGPBL Players Interviews]
*[http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/Recommendations/retro10.html Golden Age Era Sports]
*'''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book''' – [[W.C. Madden|W. C. Madden]]. Publisher: [[McFarland & Company]], [[2000 in baseball|2000]]. Format: [[Hardcover]], 294pp. Language: [[English language|English]]. {{ISBN|0-7864-0597-X}}
*'''The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary''' – [[W.C. Madden|W. C. Madden]]. Publisher: [[McFarland & Company]], [[2005 in baseball|2005]]. Format: [[Paperback|Softcover]], 295 pp. Language: [[English language|English]]. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2263-0}}

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