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Archive Home > 2013 > February > 05 > Baseball star was in a league of her own

Baseball star was in a league of her own

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
February 5, 2013

LOS ANGELES — Lavonne “Pepper" Paire-Davis, a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the central character in the movie “A League of Their Own," has died, her son said.

Paire-Davis died of natural....

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