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no_hypocrisy

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 08:35 AM Jul 2012

Doris Sams, Pro Baseball Star, Dies at 85 (A true "League of Their Own" hero)

Doris Sams, who pitched a perfect game and set a single-season home run record in the women’s professional baseball world of the 1940s and 50s that inspired the movie “A League of Their Own,” died Thursday in Knoxville, Tenn. She was 85.

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Sams was one of the leading players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded in 1943 by Phil Wrigley, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, to provide evening entertainment in Midwestern towns and keep interest in baseball alive when the majors were losing most of their players to military service in World War II.

The women’s league, which survived into 1954, was largely forgotten until the 1992 Hollywood comedy with Madonna and Geena Davis on the field and Tom Hanks as the profane manager who drove one of his players to tears and then famously exclaimed in bewilderment, “There’s no crying in baseball!”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/sports/doris-sams-womens-pro-baseball-star-dies-at-85.html?_r=1&hpw

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Doris Sams, Pro Baseball Star, Dies at 85 (A true "League of Their Own" hero) (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Jul 2012 OP
knring obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #1
"She once outdueled Lois Florreich of the Rockford Peaches through 22 innings, Zorra Jul 2012 #2

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
2. "She once outdueled Lois Florreich of the Rockford Peaches through 22 innings,
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 10:41 PM
Jul 2012

winning by 1-0, as she remembered it, in a game that had been tied after the scheduled seven innings as the short game of a doubleheader."

Wow! She must have been an amazing athlete.

"A League of Their Own" is one of my favorite films.

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