Ann Cindrià[tsindrich] (September 5, 1922 â December 18, 2010) was a pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 6", 135 lb., Cindriàbatted and threw right-handed. She was nicknamed â³Cindyâ³ by her teammates.
Born in Muse, Pennsylvania, CindriÃÂ was one of five children in the family of John and Catherine (Yuric) CindriÃÂ, of Croatian heritage.
CindriÃÂ entered the AAGPBL with the Muskegon Lassies in 1948, appearing for them in just three games before her season was cut short by a chipped bone in one of her fingers. She did appear in a game when the team moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1949 and was renamed the Springfield Sallies.
Cindriàreturned with the Sallies in 1950, when they joined the Chicago Colleens as touring player development teams. In her final season, she posted a 3âÂÂ2 record and a .231 batting average for Springfield before another finger injury ended her baseball career.
Following her baseball career, CindriÃÂ worked at Lafayette Manor Inc., Uniontown, while playing softball in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. CindriÃÂ later spent five years in the Dominican missionary convent and worked as a Dominican Missionary Sister in a nursing home office until her retirement.
Besides sports, CindriÃÂ enjoyed playing the button box accordion and guitar in her leisure time, playing the button box with the International Button Box Club.
Since 1988, CindriÃÂ 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 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rather than individual baseball personalities.
Ann CindriÃÂ died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 88.