| Gertrude Dunn | |
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| Shortstop[1] | |
| Born: September 30, 1933 Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania |
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| Died: September 29, 2004 (aged 70) Avondale, Pennsylvania |
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| Batted: right | Threw: right |
| Professional debut | |
| AAGPBL: 1951 for the Battle Creek Belles | |
| Last professional appearance | |
| 1954 for the South Bend Blue Sox | |
| Teams | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Rookie of the year (1952) | |
| Gertrude Dunn | |
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| Collegiate, International Team |
West Chester U, US Women's national team |
| Nationality | United States |
| U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
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Gertrude Dunn (1932–2004) was an American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league made famous by the 1992 movie A League Of Their Own. She played shortstop 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 the Baseball Hall of Fame. After leaving the baseball league she attended West Chester University of Pennsylvania and graduated with the class of 1960.[2]
Dunn was a player on the United States women's national field hockey team. She also coached field hockey and was named to the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame on January 16, 1988.[3]
At the age of 72, on September 29, 2004, Dunn died in Avondale, Pennsylvania when the Piper Archer airplane she was solo-piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from New Garden Airport.[4]
She was posthumously inducted into the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame in Baltimore, Maryland in 2007.[2][5]