title: Thelma Childress
text: # Thelma Childress
  
  Thelma Childress (later Pedin and then Kinney, October 9, 1926 – October 18, 2019) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. She was born in Richmond, Virginia. Childress appeared as a member of the Grand Rapids Chicks club during its 1946 season.
  
  The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988, that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.
  
  Kinney survived her son, J.S. Scot Pedin, who died in March 2019 at the age of 63. She died in October 2019, shortly before her 94th birthday.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * ↑ Thelma Pedin. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  * ↑ "Grand Rapids Chicks Team photograph, 1946". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  * ↑ Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Official Website
  * ↑ J.S. Scot Pedin obituary, lastingmemories.com; accessed July 3, 2020.
  * ↑ Thelma Kinney obituary
  