Joan Marie (Eisenberger) Knebl
October 9, 1933 ~ September 11, 2021 (age 87)
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JOAN M. KNEBL PASSED AWAY ON SEPT. 11, 2021. BORN IN PASSAIC, NJ ON OCT. 9. 1933. A MEMBER OF THE ROCKFORD PEACHES, AAGPBL WAS INDUCTED INTO THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME IN 1988 AT COOPERSTOWN, NY AND THE MOVIE "A LEAGUE OF THIER OWN" DEVELOPED. JOAN RETIRED FROM FERRERO, USA IN 1994.
PREDESEASED BY HER HUSBAND ANDY, BELOVED SON ROBERT, SISTER JANET AND PARENTS STEPHEN & ANGELINA EISENBERGER. SURVIVED BY SONS ANDREW & KEVIN, GRANDCHILDREN, COUSINS, SISTERS-IN-LAW, FRIENDS AND WONDERFUL NEIGHBORS. JOAN LOVED LIFE, HER FAMILY, VISITS TO THE CASINO AND SIGNING AUTOGRAPH REQUESTS THROUGH THE YEARS. A WONDERFUL MOM, DAUGHTER AND BIG SISTER WILL LIVE IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER. R.I.P. BURIAL SERVICE IS PRIVATE.
An All-Star at second base, Joan Berger played in the last four seasons of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Her accomplishments also included winning the Rookie of the Year Award and playing in the All-American touring team piloted by Bill Allington.
Reflecting on her early influences, Berger explained that her father Slim Berger was a semiprofessional baseball player who helped her learn to play the game. My father was a great sportsman, he used to take me to all his games and I went in the field during his practices. Her father later formed the Garfield Flashettes, which became the first girls' softball team based in Garfield, New Jersey. Berger joined her father's team when she was in eighth grade, and tried out for the AAGPBL as a sophomore at Garfield High School, but she was too young to join the league. She attended to a new tryout the next year, but her father advised her to wait until the next year. Finally, Berger joined the league in 1951 after graduating from high school. She was allocated to the Rockford Peaches, a team managed by the aforementioned Bill Allington.
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