Former Rockford Peaches pitcher Mary Pratt dies
Former women's professional baseball players Mary Pratt, left, of Quincy, Mass., and Maddy English, right, of Everett, Mass., are joined by their friend Marie Cronin, center, at the opening, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1999, of the New England Women's Sports Hall of Fame in Saugus, Mass. Pratt and English were members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s. The musuem honors New England women athletes in every major sport. (AP Photo/Steven Tackeff)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — Mary Pratt, who played for the Rockford Peaches and Kenosha Comets in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, has died.
She was 101.
Her nephew, Walter Pratt, told The Patriot Ledger she passed away peacefully at a nursing home.
Pratt pitched in the women’s league from 1943-47.
The league was profiled in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own.”
