Born: 6 November 1930, United States
Died: 4 September 2023
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
Left-fielder Wilma Briggs played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1948 through 1954, with six years on the Fort Wayne Daisies before moving to the South Bend Blue Sox for her final season. She was one of the league’s top home-run batters and was one of only 14 players to achieve 300 or more career runs batted in. Briggs was voted the best defensive outfielder in 1951, with a .987 fielding average and helped the Daisies win pennants in both 1952 and 1953.
Briggs became the first woman inducted into East Greenwich’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990, and was elected to the first AAGPBL Players Association Board of Directors. She was the first recipient of the annual Game of Legends Award in 1991 for her 38 years of contributing to women’s softball in Rhode Island and was inducted into the Rhode Island Slow Pitch Hall of Fame on 20 November 2021.