“I was a mathematical whiz in school, and I got to where I could remember the rotation that I pitched to the best hitters,” Faut said in the oral history interview, “and then I always changed it the next time they came up to bat, so there were little crazy things like that I used to do that gave me a little edge.”
She married Karl Winsch, a former minor league pitcher, in 1947, and had her first child, Larry, the next year, which caused her to miss part of that season. In 1951 — to her surprise, she said — her husband showed up at spring training as the new manager of the Blue Sox.
His presence was not agreeable to all. He was a disciplinarian, and he sparked lingering dissension when his suspension of one player late in the 1952 season for taking off her spikes during a game led several players to walk out, leaving the Blue Sox with only 12 for the rest of the season.
In a phone interview, Kevin Winsch said, “He created a problem because the team thought it was her and him against them.” Jim Sargent, the author of “We Were the All-American Girls: Interviews With Players of the AAGPBL, 1943-1954” (2013), said, also by phone: “I don’t think they resented her in particular, but she wasn’t one of them because if she sided with them, it would have made it…
