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This evening's online New York Times— Doris Sams, Pro Baseball Star, Dies at 85 By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Published: July 1, 2012
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Doris Sams, who pitched a perfect game and set a single-season home run record in the women’s professional baseball world of the 1940s and 50s that inspired the movie “A League of Their Own,” died Thursday in Knoxville, Tenn. She was 85. "High summer holds the earth."
— James Agee, quoted in a post by University Diaries
linked to here on Thursday.
See also For Taylor and Country Strong.
* A phrase from the quoted Agee poem