Thelma Walmsley

Thelma Jo Walmsley, who lived from 1918 to 1997, was a Canadian baseball and softball player from Copper Cliff, Ontario. She played for the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1946 season, and before that she played for the Montreal Royals of the Montreal Major Ladies' Softball League. In 1998 she was one of the Canadian women who played in the All-American Girls league who were inducted as a group into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Her Racine Belles jacket is held in the collection of the Copper Cliff Museum in her hometown.