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Pro baseball star Doris Sams Dies at 85

Written By Unknown on Sunday 1 July 2012 | 21:10


Doris Sams, who pitched a perfect game and established a home in one season of professional baseball record for home runs by women in the world 1940 and the 50's that inspired the movie "A League of Their Own , "died Thursday in Knoxville, Tennessee for 85 years.

The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease, said his cousins ​​Gordon Sams.

Sams was one of the leaders of the League All-American Girls Professional Baseball, founded in 1943 by Phil Wrigley, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, to provide entertainment for the night in the cities of the Midwest and maintain interest in baseball alive when the children were losing most of its players to military service in World War II.

League of Women, which survived in 1954, was largely forgotten until the 1992 Hollywood comedy with Madonna and Geena Davis and Tom Hanks as a field manager who led the profane to the players of their tears and cried after the loss of famous "Can not cry in baseball!"

Play for real women for women in vibrant and highly competitive athletes who have often been managed by former major league players and played through them many abrasions, or "strawberry", scroll through your uniforms in a short skirt.

"We had a lot of girls who can play and that really understands the game, and administrators appreciate that," Sams told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989.

Playing Michigan Muskegon Lasser and his successor franchise, the Kalamazoo Lasser, 1946 to 1953, Sams, who was 5 feet 9 inches and wore glasses, strong arm shrewd, side and overhead, as the rules governing the delivery is developed.

A record 12 homers in the league in 1952, playing in 109 games, beat by better than 300 in each of his last four seasons, he threw several brokers play in the gardens when not pitching, and was player of the league of "In the 1947 and 1949.

Once he won the duel of the Rockford Peaches of Lois Florreich through 22 entries, winning 1-0, to remember, a game that was tied after seven innings of date because of the short game dual listings.

"After that, I told my boss:" I do not want spread over seven innings games are too long. "Macy Sue Sams quoted as saying in the history of the league," a new game "(1993).

Sams has launched his perfect game in August 1947, retiring 27 batters to the daisies in Fort Wayne to win 2-0, then threw a party with no hits in the next year Salles Springfield.

He attributes his gardeners with several dazzling play this game perfect.

"The last shot, a girl has pushed almost to the throat," he told The New York Times in 1988, when the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, introduced a permanent exhibition of the ball female baseball. "I 'bounced off his knee, I almost tore the patella, and the whereabouts made a short stop and took off."

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