Hermine Baron was a record-making Grand Life Master contract bridge player; a native of Omaha, she moved to southern California (Los Angeles) in the mid-forties. Having contracted polio at an early age, she played the game from a wheelchair. At her death, she had accumulated 22,654 masterpoints, the most of any woman in the USA. Winner of several national titles and over 100 regional events, she also represented the USA internationally in 1968, 1978 and 1982. She was inducted into the ACBL

American Contract Bridge League

The American Contract Bridge League is the largest contract bridge organization in North America. It promotes the game of bridge in the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, and Canada, and is a member of the World Bridge Federation...

 Hall of Fame in 2002.

Playing record

• Grand Life Master with 22,654.52 masterpoints — the most of any woman in the U.S. at the time of her death in 1996
• Helen Sobel Smith
  Helen Sobel Smith
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   Trophy: Life Master's Women's Pairs winner in 1963 with Anne Burnstein
• McKenney Trophy (now the Barry Crane
  Barry Crane
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   Top 500): won in 1964 and 1970. Her 1964 winning total of 1370 masterpoints was an all-time record subsequently broken in 1969
• Sternberg Trophy (formerly the Coffin Trophy): Women's Board-a-Match Teams
  Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams
  The Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League North American Bridge Championship and is a four session board-a-match event, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions...
  
   winner in 1964 with Mary Jane Farell, Bee Schenkin and Peggy Solomon and in 1968 with Mary Jane Farell, Sally Johnson, Bee Schenkin, Peggy Solomon and Rhoda Walsh; runner-up in 1967 with Mary Jane Farell, Bee Schenkin and Peggy Solomon and in 1974 with Carol Greenhut, Trudi Nugit, and Kerri Schuman
• Von Zedtwitz Gold Cup: Life Master Pairs winner with Meyer Schleifer in 1966
• Whitehead Trophy: Women's Pairs
  Whitehead Women's Pairs
  The Whitehead Women's Pairs bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League North American Bridge Championship ....
  
   winner in 1968 with Rhoda Walsh and in 1982 with Beverly Rosenberg; runner-up in 1967 with Marilyn Johnson, in 1975 with Carol Greenhut and in 1977 and 1980 with Beverly Rosenberg
• Cavendish Trophy: Blue Ribbon Pairs runner-up in 1971 with Michael Lawrence
  Michael Lawrence
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• Represented the United States in world competition in 1968, 1978, and 1982