{{Short description|American baseball player (1924–2018)}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name= Fern E. Ferguson | image= | image_size= | team= | position= Pitcher | birth_date= June 9, 1924 | birth_place= | death_date= November 23, 2018 | death_place= | bats= Right | throws= Right | teams= *Racine Belles (1945) | highlights= *Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (unveiled in 1988) }}
'''Fern E. Ferguson''' (June 9, 1924 – November 23, 2018) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.<ref name=AAGPBL>{{cite web|url=http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/fern-ferguson/393|publisher=aagpbl.org|title=Fern Ferguson Player/Profile (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)|accessdate=2019-03-31}}</ref><ref name=BOOK>Madden, W. C. (2005) ''The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary''. McFarland & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2263-0}}</ref> She was from Wayland, Missouri.<ref>{{cite news |title=Belles Play Blue Sox Here Tonight; Add Two Players |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116517215/the-journal-times/ |access-date=15 January 2023 |work=The Journal Times |date=5 June 1945}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1940 US Census |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/90747377:2442?tid=&pid=&queryId=50940e81aafca6f51b0f6b2ef4df1010&_phsrc=ddL6168&_phstart=successSource |website=Ancestry |access-date=30 April 2023}}</ref>
==Career== Ferguson joined the Racine Belles club in the 1945 season and was assigned as a pitcher. She posted a 4.90 ERA in 11 innings of work, allowing 10 runs (six earned) on 12 hits and nine walks without strikeouts and did not have a decision.<ref name=RecordBook/> Additional information is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.<ref name=RecordBook>Madden, W. C. (2000) ''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book''. McFarland & Company; {{ISBN|978-0-7864-0597-8}}</ref>
==Recognitions and awards== In 1988 was inaugurated a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, that honors those who were part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Fern Ferguson, along with the rest of the girls and the league staff, is included at the display/exhibit.<ref>[http://baseballhall.org/discover/baseball-history/there-is-crying-in-baseball Before A League of Their Own]. ''National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum''; retrieved September 5, 2016.</ref>
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