Mary Ann Moore (born July 7, 1932) is a former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League infielder. Listed at 5' 5", 145 lb., Moore batted and threw right handed. She was dubbed 'Sis' by her teammates. Mary Moore played in the All-American League from 1950 through 1952 before a series of injuries hampered her career. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Moore was 15 when she started to play fastpitch softball for the Wyandotte Chemicals team in a Michigan industrial league. She later graduated from Lincoln Park High School in 1950. In between, Mary learned her baseball skills from her neighbor Eddie Lake, a former shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers who often joined the local kids on the sandlots ball for a game. She got her chance to play through an English teacher at her high school who introduced her to a former All-American League player, Doris Neal. Under Neal's guidance, Moore went to South Bend, Indiana for a tryout and was assigned to play at second base for the traveling Springfield Sallies in 1950. By then, the Sallies and the Chicago Colleens played exhibition games and recruited new talent for the league, as they toured through the South and East. Highlights of these tours included contests at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. and Yankee Stadium in New York. As a result, Mary led the Sallies in games played (77), hits (75), runs batted in (48), total bases (95) and walks (61), while hitting three home runs and scoring 65 runs to also lead the team. But her greatest thrill on the tour was playing in Yankee Stadium and meeting Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Billy Martin and Phil Rizzuto, among other Yankees legends. After that, she was promoted to the Battle Creek Belles expansion team for the upcoming season. During the off-season, Moore worked in an auto parts factory and had two fingers partially cut off in a punch press. As a result, she thought her professional baseball career was finished before it had started. The injury was reminiscent of the one suffered by dead-ball era pitching star Mordecai Brown, who in his youth lost parts of two fingers on his right hand in an accident in a corn grinder. Through the years, Brown turned this handicap into an advantage by learning how to grip a baseball in a way that resulted in an exceptional curveball