Betsy Jochum, real life inspiration for movie, dies at age 104
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Lilith — 9 months ago(June 05, 2025 08:44 PM)
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Betsy Jochum, the last surviving player from the inaugural 1943 season of what became the All-American Girls Base Ball League, which was started as a wartime novelty but became a groundbreaking moment in sports, died May 31 at her home in South Bend, Indiana. She was 104.
Until the league folded in 1954, teams dotted the Midwest and drew hundreds of thousands of fans a year in what is now regarded as a major advance in showing the viability of women’s professional team sports decades before the WNBA and other leagues.
The popular film “A League of Their Own” (1992) helped renew attention to the players and founders — with a semi-fictionalized story about the Rockford Peaches in Illinois, one of the four founding teams. Ms. Jochum (pronounced jock-em) was with the rival Blue Sox out of South Bend.
She was a hard-hitting outfielder who later pitched during her six years in the league. Sheldon said Ms. Jochum was the last link to the league’s original 60 players. “And, overall, she was the last of the league’s superstar players,” Sheldon added.
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MovieManCin2 — 9 months ago(June 06, 2025 06:42 AM)
Neither of those first two things are gay, but that word is spelled
emasculation.
And where and when did that happen in this movie?
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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MovieManCin2 — 9 months ago(June 07, 2025 05:18 PM)
I did not see it that way. I thought it was a good movie, but then that's why they make chocolate and vanilla. I especially enjoyed Jon Lovitz's small but hilarious role.
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Lilith — 9 months ago(June 06, 2025 01:48 PM)
I was so impressed she made it to 104! Can you imagine all of the things she's seen and experienced in her life? That's amazing. She was a pretty impressive person.
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Joc Spader — 9 months ago(June 06, 2025 02:41 PM)
In November 1988, Ms. Jochum and other former players attended a ceremony at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, to dedicate a permanent exhibition on the league. Ms. Jochum’s uniform was among the memorabilia at a Smithsonian Museum of American History exhibit, “Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers,” which toured from 2004 to 2007.
Until today I always thought the Hall of Fame induction happened in the year the movie was released which was in 1992.
Tell you what…When I send my ex-wife her money…you can lick the stamps.