Tuesday, May 25, 2010

We'll Miss You Dorothy. Thanks for the Thrills.

Dorothy Kamenshek, a former star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League who helped inspire the lead character in the movie"A League of their Own," died of natural causes May 17, 2010 at age 84 at her home in Palm Desert, Calif.  Kamenshek, who also went by Dottie and Kammie, played for the Rockford Peaches in Illinois from 1943 to 1953. The left-handed infielder was a seven-time All-Star and chosen on of the top 100 female athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated.

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