# Alta Weiss

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**Alta Weiss Hisrich** (February 9, 1890 – February 12, 1964), born **Alta Weiss**, was an American [minor league baseball](/source/Minor_league_baseball) [pitcher](/source/Pitcher) from [Ohio](/source/Ohio) who drew large crowds to exhibition games at [minor league](/source/Minor_league) and major league venues in the US state of Ohio and [Kentucky](/source/Kentucky). She was a semiprofessional female baseball player who went on to become a [physician](/source/Physician).

## Early life

Born in 1890 in [Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio](/source/Berlin,_Holmes_County,_Ohio), she was the daughter of Dr. George and Lucinda Zehnder Weiss.[1][2] When she was five years old the family moved to [Ragersville](/source/Ragersville,_Ohio).[1][3]

## Later career

She was the only female to graduate [Starling Medical College](/source/The_Ohio_State_University_College_of_Medicine) with the class of 1914.[1][2][4]

Weiss married John E. Hisrich in 1926; they separated in 1944.[5] She died in 1964 in Ragersville, Ohio, just three days after her 74th birthday.[6]

## Honors

A picture-story book for children *Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings*, by [Deborah Hopkinson](/source/Deborah_Hopkinson), with illustrations by Terry Widener, was published in 2003 (ISBN 0-689-83300-8).[7][8] On October 20, 2004, she was inducted into the Ragersville Hall of Fame.[1] Her uniform was sent to the [National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum](/source/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum) in [Cooperstown, New York](/source/Cooperstown,_New_York) for exhibition in a [Women's baseball](/source/Women's_baseball) exhibit that opened in 2005.[1]

## See also

- [Women in baseball](/source/Women_in_baseball)

## References

1. Eberle, Maxine Renner (October 20, 2004). ["Ragersville Hall of Fame to induct Alta Weiss as first female semi-pro baseball player"](http://www.ragersville.org/weiss04.htm). Retrieved September 26, 2009.

1. ["You Cant Play Ball In A Skirt: The Alta Weiss Story"](http://www.ragersville.org/altaweissnews03.htm). Ragersville Historical Society. February 3, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2009.

1. Ragersville, in [Tuscarawas County](/source/Tuscarawas_County,_Ohio), is [south-southeast](/source/Boxing_the_compass) of [Sugarcreek, Ohio](/source/Sugarcreek,_Ohio) and east-northeast of [Baltic](/source/Baltic,_Ohio).

1. Ward, Geoffrey C. & Ken Burns (13 August 1996). *Baseball An Illustrated History*. A.A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-76541-7.

1. "Files for Divorce." *Coshocton (OH) Tribune*, August 7, 1946, p. 2.

1. "Alta W. Hisrich Dies at Dover." *Coshocton (OH) Tribune*, February 13, 1964, p. 13.

1. Hopkinson, Deborah. ["Deborah Hopkinson – Girl Wonder"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100418135111/http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/picture%20books/girl_wonder.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.deborahhopkinson.com/picture%20books/girl_wonder.html) on April 18, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2009.

1. The book was awarded a Jan Addams honor award for illustration in 2004. See ["Jane Addams Peace Association – Previous Winners of the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Listed by Year"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516195125/http://home.igc.org/~japa/jacba/previous_winners.html). Archived from [the original](http://home.igc.org/~japa/jacba/previous_winners.html) on 2008-05-16. Retrieved September 27, 2009.

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