Sophie Kurys
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Sophie Kurys (May 14, 1925 – February 17, 2013) was a retired second basewoman who competed in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1952.
Kurys batted and threw right-handed, despite being listed at 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), 115 lb (52 kg).
Career
Kurys, a native of Flint, Michigan, was by far the best base stealer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League history. Tina Cobb or the Flint Flash were infamous for her swiftness in stealing bases because she was unstoppable from base. With a career-high 201 in 1946, eighty percent of the time she stole at least one base, averaging 150 steals per year between 1944 and 1950, with a career-high 201 in 1946.
She also set a world record of 1,114 stolen bases, more than Ty Cobb (892), and then more than Lou Brock (938) and Japanese actress Yutaka Fukumoto (1,065), before her record was surpassed by Rickey Henderson in 1994. Her 201 stolen bases in a single season are still a career record, with 71 more bases than Henderson (130), who set the Major League Baseball single-season record in 1982. Kurys were relatively unknown until filmmaker Penny Marshall's 1992 film A League of Their Own was on display for the first time, as did many of her colleagues.
Kurys scored a career-best 4,693 points out of 5,000 in the Mott Pentathlon, making him a well-rounded athlete. She was also the Most Valuable Player of the Michigan State Basketball Tournament at Lansing last year. In addition, she was an excellent infielder at shortstop and third base in fastpitch softball. However, Kurys did not even play second base before joining the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and she was quickly ranked as the top in the game at the position.
Kurys became a founding member of the AAGPBL in 1943, and they spent eight years with the Racine Belles in the league. She had her best season in 1946, when she reached base 215 times and stole 201 bases in 203 attempts, while still batting.286 runs on average (.434), with league-leads in runs (117) and on-base percentage (.434). With 93 walks in 113 games and a fielding percentage of a second baseman at.973, she also earned Player of the Year. Kurys captained the season as the top hitter in the playoffs and stole five bases in the 16-inning, championship-winning Game Six against the Rockford Peaches, where she singled her second in the 13th, then rushed home on a Betty Trezza short single.
Before the 1951 season, when the team went from Racine, Wisconsin, to Battle Creek, Michigan, Kurys, Eleanor Dapkus, Edythe Perlick, and Joanne Winter, among many original Belles, were dissatisfied and decided not to proceed. The Belles were a close knit crew for eight years, often like a family and often away from home. Kurys and her colleagues feared that too much would change, and that they did not agree with the new team, a new boss, and, especially, a new location. Nevertheless, Kurys reconsidered the decision and joined the Battle Creek Belles club in 1952. She played in 17 games before being hurt. She resigned in the midseason.
Kurys was an All-Star second baseman for four years, but the league only selected All-Star teams in five of her seasons as a regular. She holds the all-time record for stolen bases (1,114), runs scored (688), and runs in a single game (five) and in a regular season (117). She has also reached her third birthday (859) and walks (522), which also landed her third in lifetime hits (859) and walks (522). She recovered from her injuries and played competitive softball for four more years before retiring from AAGPBL. In a 2013 exhibit by the Baseball Hall of Fame, her mark of 201 stolen bases (in 203 attempts) was honored. Billy Hamilton of the Cincinnati Reds set the minor league record in 2012 with 155, while Rickey Henderson holds the modern major league record of 130.
Kurys was a long-time resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, where she died in 2013 at the age of 87 after suffering from surgery complications. In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women's Baseball Hall of Fame.