Betty Peebles, born Brookhouser in 1913, worked for Erie Printing, and then served as an account executive with Yount Co. and Mitchell-Knepper advertising agencies starting in the 1940s. Soon she became Erie's first female baseball reporter, penning a column "The Women's Angle on the Erie Sailors" in the Erie Dispatch Herald, creating a radio program "The Woman's Angle on Baseball" for WJOC radio in Jamestown, NY and writing a monthly column for Baseball Magazine of Washington. This was in addition to writing frequent articles for regional and national baseball publications. In 1950, she married Ray Peebles, who was a business manager for the Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh farm teams and a former sports editor. Their wedding invitation was shaped like a baseball. In 1967, she was named women's editor of the Erie Times, where she covered women's news until her retirement in 1983. Her civic work to baseball was as a founding member of Team Erie, the group of volunteers that led the drive to build what became Jerry Uht Park. Her work as organizer, publicist and advocate for the project was tireless. Betty would become a familiar figure at the ballpark as a longtime season ticket holder for the Erie Seawolves. Among her many honors, Betty was most proud of her 2005 induction into the Metropolitan Erie Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame alongside her late husband, and also being named the first female "Baseball Person of the Year" by the Erie County Umpires Association and Dr. Gertrude Barber Center.