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Betsy Jochum, player from women’s baseball league that inspired ‘A League of Their Own,’ dead at 104

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Betsy Jochum was an original member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that inspired the 1992 film " A League of Their Own " She died at her South Bend , Indiana home on May 31 at 104 years old .

The Blue Sox were rivals of the Rockford Peaches , the team that the movie was based on.

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