Gertrude Dunn

Template:Short description Template:Infobox baseball biography Template:Infobox lacrosse player Gertrude Dunn (September 30, 1933Template:Spaced ndashSeptember 29, 2004) was an American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league made famous by the 1992 film A League Of Their Own.<ref name=AAGPBL>Gertrude Dunn – Profile / Obituary. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-12.</ref>

Career

Dunn played shortstop on two teams, the Battle Creek Belles and the South Bend Blue Sox, and was named "Rookie of the Year" in 1952.<ref name=AAGPBL/>

When the league was unable to continue in 1955, Dunn joined several other players selected by former Fort Wayne Daisies manager Bill Allington to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans All-Stars. The team played 100 games, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan. Besides Dunn, the Allington All-Stars included players as Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Betty Foss, Mary Froning, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder, Jean Smith, Dolly Vanderlip and Joanne Weaver, among others.

She later attended West Chester University of Pennsylvania and graduated with the class of 1960.<ref name="wcu">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="hockey_hof">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career statistics

Batting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	TB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
344	1226	154	320	49	5	6	105	70	397	138	46	.261	.336	.324	.660

Fielding

GP	PO	A	E	TC	DP	FA
331	557	1028	140	1725	77	.919

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Death and legacy

At the age of 70, 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.<ref name="latimes">Template:Cite news</ref>

She was posthumously inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum in Baltimore, Maryland in 2007.<ref name="wcu" /><ref name="uslacrosee">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>