Harold Greiner

Harold Greiner
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Manager
Born: (1907-07-07)July 7, 1907 Fort Wayne, Indiana
Died: July 17, 1993(1993-07-17) (aged 86) Fort Wayne, Indiana
Batted: n/a Threw: n/a
Career statistics
Managing record	52-57
W-L%	.477
Games behind	23
Place	5th
Teams
Fort Wayne Daisies (1949)
Career highlights and awards
Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Harold Greiner (July 7, 1907 – July 17, 1993) was a restaurant entrepreneur, baseball manager and softball coach.^[1][2]

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Greiner was the owner of Bob Inn Restaurant and Bakery. He also coached softball for ten years and sponsored a women's team that won state fastpitch softball titles in 1944 and 1945.^[1]

In addition, Greiner scouted for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and contributed to bringing the Fort Wayne Daisies to his hometown in 1945.^[3] He later became part of the AAGPBL board of directors and then managed the Daisies during the 1949 season.^[4] Some of the players recruited by Greiner for the league include Maxine Kline, June Peppas and Kathryn Vonderau, among others.^[5]

Greiner appears in the documentary A League of Their Own, aired on PBS in 1987,^[6] which inspired a film with the same title released in 1992.^[7] Both the documentary and the film brought a rejuvenated interest to the extinct baseball circuit. Then, the AAGPBL received their long overdue recognition in 1988, when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated a permanent display in Cooperstown, New York to honor the entire league rather than individual baseball personalities.^[8]

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