league — as the curtain came down on the AAGPBL as it folded. Personal life Following her playing retirement, Lovell returned to Conneaut and married Harold Dowler in 1959. The couple lived a full, adventurous life together. Both played golf and bowling, raised German Shorthaired Pointers, and she also rode motorcycles. But in her later years, she was beset by a renal failure, which forced her to dialysis. Eventually, she suffered complications from diabetes. She died in Amboy, Ohio, at the age of 65, and is buried in Waterford Cemetery at Erie County, Pennsylvania. Regular season statistics Batting Fielding Pitching Postseason statistics Batting Fielding Book excerpt Author Susan E. Johnson, a sociology professor and devoted fan of the Rockford Peaches, wrote in her 1994 book When Women Played Hardball the next commentary: Jean ordered an arrangement of yellow roses with her catcher’s mitt inside of it, and when they closed the lid of her casket for the final time, her catcher’s mitt went inside with her. Sources External links All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Website A league of her own - Don McCormack Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players Baseball players from Ohio People from Conneaut, Ohio People from Fulton County, Ohio 1926 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American women 20th-century American people