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opportunity to play, and after that she played all the time. "I can't even remember not playing baseball", she recalled in an interview. Havlish added that she started playing baseball in an empty cornfield near her home with all the neighborhood boys. While attending
Washington High School, she developed as a multi-talented athlete, playing
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Havlish was one of five siblings of Howard
Havlish, a full-time worker for the Great Northern Railroad, and Mary (Sheskern) Havlish, who labored part-time for the Internal Revenue Service. At age eight, Havlish was watching the older girls play when the shortstop got hurt. She was given an
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Additionally, Havlish gained inductions in the Women's
International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in 1987, the Minnesota State Women's Hall of Fame in 1991, the St. Bernard's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007, and is also a member of the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.
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in 193 games, but provided outstanding defense with a strong and secure throwing arm. After the league disbanded in 1954, Havlish played elite fast-pitch softball and competed successfully in bowling for over three decades, leading the
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all-female baseball team in their 1994 inaugural season, in which they threw out the first ball pitch of a game celebrated in Saint Paul.
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for a .254 average (70-for-276), including hitting a home run in three consecutive games. At the field, she committed 18 fewer
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