{{Short description|Canadian baseball player (1923–2020)}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name=Anne Surkowski | image= | image_size=200px | caption= | position=Outfield | birth_date= {{birth_date|1923|07|22|mf=y}} | birth_place=Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada | death_date= {{death date and age|2020|||1923|7|22}} | death_place= | bats=Right | throws=Right | teams = *South Bend Blue Sox (1945) |highlights= *Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame induction (1998) }} '''Anne Deyotte''' ({{née}} '''Surkowski''', February 22, 1923 – 2020) was a Canadian outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 3", 120 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.<ref name=AAGPBL>[https://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/anne-surkowski-deyotte/366 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Anne Deyotte]. Retrieved 2026-02-20.</ref>
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.
Surkowski joined her younger sister Lee on the South Bend Blue Sox team for the 1945 season. She served as a backup outfielder for Lee at center field, Rose Gacioch at left, and Betsy Jochum in right.<ref>[https://www.aagpbl.org/teams/south-bend-blue-sox/1945 1945 South Bend Blue Sox]. Retrieved 2026-02-20.</ref>
Like her sister, Surkowski has been honored with many recognitions and awards over the years. In 1998, she garnered honorary inductions in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame. She is also part of ''Women in Baseball'', a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.<ref>[http://www.baseballhalloffame.ca/ Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum website]</ref><ref>[http://www.saskbaseball.ca/index.php?id=30 Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum website]</ref>
Surkowski died in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Deyotte Surkowski |url=https://www.startiger.com/l?searchid=23082487&id=92201 |website=StarTiger |access-date=6 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Surkowski Deyotte would have been 98 years old today. She was from Moose Jaw, SK (CANADA). Anne played in 1945 for the South Bend Blue Sox as an outfielder. Anne's sister, Lee (Surkowski) Delmonico played in the AAGPBL also. |url=https://www.facebook.com/AAGPBL/photos/bc.AbomCOaq9d3veucFUJmaMIOTXMAWAuafyiZrRstBZnxD9FGTNPHYC6qGKwLr82AfG3W-gmb76coLumNZ_C_1doBNu8vNg_U0IgJc-6-sSnmSCyonaBXglLHfFv7kLtiWRCU_z0TY4HB9D3vTvyrGq78i/3568154493233359/?opaqueCursor=AboZXU4nAJz31_3DqklVwS4mhnc-kkrMVhPjNsQiXoTkXWiAxHcmfIHt4lfiFmTgPWB8S982D0NOJw4XwQQiKT_afaxuuJQFpXwwFYjUU5v-KuST4WCBVY4rzQRCwh6-8pWlOn9lP6jPe-HGD299uV3TiKuAw9MWECPfCmaM0B-FlCgRoDcJUebCFTFg7YBGzkHDLIl-ybnr4ppKXI8tZugbH6HAf3VcfwgGI0U9KfSCS0W7b1fwPyatdzRG-y5z9LmX7fObWw_NkNXfvYmcc5d-c_NBRhSj3qRtlZ8DQiil-uUCJ4IaFxqj8rjKbdzVsVsJ2MZ96LgYBdGDnxnpAGyBTUGRS5BxP9m4IboFszJpskKlzdNfosp5z_z0BnJYYY1HEx-4XjVsSnEzQBsCN1YjqigzXBXGV-KLEWDexbl9F0vbQwTH5iHZWpRbjsubV-0LJ0W40Nc282UegLugC0h1E01GtfWpfKxnpKxhOLpzpdUZdlTI-tylX7VSHAAOnOAgBJl-tQgQZMuNkdYGsAc1Gx7AjAHmahRo3Jye6tznQacv6rSiOdQdJcHCUCNNpjsT5hDzKb9XMTN2dKndBa2p5Fugooz6dF9YkgVGPT79BPi6hvIjctSBC3_4o0nwVmPT3M7DNdHWCT-El9CidNW9nVRWIR2d6MH4JwssdfC-Xg |website=All American Girls Professional Baseball League Players Association on Facebook |access-date=6 June 2022 |date=22 February 2021}}</ref>
==Career statistics== '''Batting''' {| class="wikitable" !GP!!AB!!R!!H!!2B!!3B!!HR!!RBI!!SB!!BB!!SO!!BA!!OBP |-align=center | 21 || 39 || 5 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 4 || 3 || 7 || .103 || .167 |} '''Fielding''' {| class="wikitable" !GP!!PO!!A!!E!!TC!!DP!!FA |-align=center | 18 || 11 || 2 || 3 || 16 || 1 || .867 |} <ref>''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book'' – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Softcover, 294pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3747-4}}</ref>
==Sources== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Surkowski, Anne}} Category:1923 births Category:2020 deaths Category:21st-century Canadian women Category:South Bend Blue Sox players Category:Baseball people from Saskatchewan Category:Canadian women baseball players Category:Sportspeople from Moose Jaw Category:Canadian expatriate baseball players in the United States Category:20th-century Canadian sportswomen