Mary Pratt, who is the last surviving member of the original 1943 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team the Rockford Peaches, died Wednesday. She was 101.
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team was profiled in the 1992 movie, “A League of Their Own.”
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Pratt pitched in the league for five summers and was a gym teacher.
She played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets.
Pratt’s nephew said she passed away peacefully in her sleep at a nursing home in Braintree, Massachusetts.
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