Gertrude Dunn, 72; Women’s Professional Baseball League Star
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Gertrude Dunn, 72, who played in the women’s professional baseball league immortalized in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” has died.
Dunn died Wednesday when the single-engine plane she was flying crashed after takeoff at New Garden Airport in Chester County, Pa. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident.
In 1952, Dunn was voted Rookie of the Year after leading her team to the championship of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
After the league folded in 1954, she attended West Chester University in Pennsylvania, where she majored in physical education and played on the U.S. national field hockey and lacrosse teams. She was a member of the U.S. Field Hockey Hall of Fame.
She taught physical education for a few years and later held several other jobs, including selling collectible pins.
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