Helen Nicol
| Helen Nicol-Fox | |
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| Pitcher | |
| Born: May 9, 1920 Ardley, Alberta, Canada | |
| Died: July 25, 2021 (aged 101) Mesa, Arizona, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| Career statistics | |
| Win–loss record | 163–118 |
| Earned run average | 1.89 |
| Strikeouts | 1,076 |
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Helen Nicol (later Fox; May 9, 1920 – July 25, 2021) was a Canadian-American baseball pitcher who played from 1943 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
Listed at 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m), 120 pounds (54 kg), Nicol batted and threw right-handed. She was sometimes credited as Helen Fox or Nickie Fox.
The 1992 film A League of Their Own, directed by filmmaker Penny Marshall, revitalized interest in women's baseball and helped memorialize a neglected chapter of sports history: the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained. Nicol was one of them.
Nicol turned 100 in May 2020 and died in Mesa, Arizona, in July 2021, at the age of 101.