(221), tying South Bend's Dorothy Mueller for seventh in wins, and also joined the All-Star team for the second consecutive year. She contributed at the plate as well, going 21-for-88 for a .239 batting average, more than three of the Rockford starting position players. In the best-of-five first round, Rockford eliminated the Kenosha Comets in four games, with Erickson winning Game 3 while limiting Kenosha to four hits in an 8–3 victory. In the final series Rockford claimed its second title in a row, four games to three, over the Fort Wayne Daisies. In Game 2, Erickson limited the Daisies to five hits in a 5–2 victory, but lost a pitching duel against Maxine Kline in Game 6. Rockford wound up winning last game thanks to a 3–1 pitching performance by her teammate Fox. It would be the last season for Erickson. Overall, she posted a 34–16 record with a 2.13 ERA in three seasons, while going 4–1 with a 2.60 ERA in five playoff appearances. Erickson retired from baseball for personal reasons. Everything was great, except the bus rides to the four state destinations. I could never sleep on the bus, so those trips got boring after a 126 game schedule – all night games, she explained. Lou married Burton Sauer in 1950 and became a housewife. Her husband was a postmaster and they produced a daughter and a son and two grandsons. In addition, she coached girls' softball in her hometown of Arcadia, Wisconsin. Lou Erickson is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rather than any individual personality. Pitching statistics Sources 1929 births 2016 deaths All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players Racine Belles (1943–1950) players Rockford Peaches players Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Wisconsin People from Arcadia, Wisconsin 21st-century American women