Born in
Knoxville, Tennessee, Doyle attended
Young High School in South Knoxville, where she was a member of the
basketball squad in her senior year. She also played basketball and
softball in the city league, and was convinced by AAGPBL player
Doris Sams to join the league while still in high school. Doyle made a tryout, and later became one of two hundred players to attend the first AAGPBL
spring training outside the United States, which was held in
Cuba at
Gran Stadium de La Habana before the
1947 season. She made the grade and was assigned to the
Rockford Peaches. The 17-year-old played briefly for the Peaches, where she earned the nickname ″Duckie″ (a shortening of
duck soup), which players got called when they were an easy out as a batter. At the end of the season she married Albert Lee Childress and decided not to go back to the league the following season. Instead, Doyle played softball in her hometown until 1967. After that she
coached and
umpired for a long time, retiring in 1982. She developed
arthritis in both knees and had
knee replacement surgery. Meanwhile, she gave birth to one daughter, Janet, and helped her husband run a family business. She was widowed in 1975. Doyle received further recognition in 1988 when she became part of
Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in
Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She also was inducted into the Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame in 1990. As of 2025, she lives in
Maryville, Tennessee. ==Career statistics==