Gertrude Dunn

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Gertrude Dunn (1932 - 2004) is a former player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - the league made famous by the 1992 movie "A League Of Their Own." She played on two teams, the "Battle Creek Belles" and the "South Bend Blue Sox," and was named "Rookie of the Year" in 1952. She also was an inductee in Baseball Hall of Fame.

Dunn is a former player on the U.S. national field hockey team. She also coached field hockey and was named to the U.S. Field Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.

At the age of 72, on October 6, 2004, Dunn died in Avondale, Pennsylvania when the airplane she was solo-piloting crashed shortly after takeoff.