Hermine Baron

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 Trophy: Life Master's Women's Pairs winner in 1963 with Anne Burnstein
• McKenney Trophy : won in 1964 and 1970. Her 1964 winning total of 1370 masterpoints was an all-time record subsequently broken in 1969
• Sternberg Trophy : Women's Board-a-Match Teams 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 Shuman
• Von Zedtwitz Gold Cup: Life Master Pairs winner with Meyer Schleifer in 1966
• Whitehead Trophy: Women's Pairs 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
• Represented the United States in world competition in 1968, 1978, and 1982

  Bridge accomplishments

Honors

• ACBL Hall of Fame, 2002

  Wins

• North American Bridge Championships
• * von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs 1966
• * Whitehead Women's Pairs 1968, 1982
• * Smith Life Master Women's Pairs 1963
• * Wagar Women's Knockout Teams 1964, 1968
• * Keohane North American Swiss Teams 1979

  Runners-up

• North American Bridge Championships
• * Whitehead Women's Pairs 1967, 1975, 1977, 1980
• * Blue Ribbon Pairs 1971
• * Hilliard Mixed Pairs 1961
• * Wagar Women's Knockout Teams 1967, 1974