1. Peggy Antonio, also referred to as the "Girl Grimmett," played women's Test cricket for Australia and died on January 11, 2002, in Melbourne, Australia.
2. Antonio grew up in the working-class Melbourne district of Port Melbourne, Victoria.
3. When she was 15 months old, her father, a Chilean docker of French and Spanish ancestry, passed away.
4. With her uncle's encouragement, she picked up cricket from the guys on the streets of her area.
5. She was fortunate enough to work at a shoe factory in the Collingwood industrial area during the Great Depression as a young child.
6. Eddie Conlon, a club cricketer with encyclopaedic knowledge of the game, saw Antonio when he was playing for the women's cricket team at the factory.
7. With Conlon's help, Antonio created an uncommon combination of leg spin and off spin, including a top spinner and a wrong'un.