Hilda Bolden-Shorter

• School University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania
• High School Darby High School

• Born July 31, 1904 in Darby, PA USA
• Died March 1986 in Cambridge, MA USA

Biographical Information

Hilda Bolden-Shorter was a Negro League owner.

Her high school's valedictorian, Bolden-Shorter became a doctor. She worked in Liberia on a medical mission for the International Health Office in 1946-1947. She took over the reins of the Philadelphia Stars after the death of her father Ed Bolden and owned the team from 1950-1952, before selling it to Eddie Gottlieb.

Source: Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball ed. by Leslie Heaphy and Mel Anthony May (the article on Bolden-Shorter is by Bijan Bayne