death_date death_place bats birth_place statvalue team image_size position birth_date image article_title statlabel name throws
11 january 1997 ridgewood , new jersey right midland park , new jersey .231 nbsp ; & nbsp ; 65 & nbsp ; & nbsp ; 15 & all-american girls professional baseball league 175px center fielder / utility 15 may 1933 carol habben.jpg carol habben
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carol habben

carol habben -lrb- may 15 , 1933 -- january 11 , 1997 -rrb- was a center fielder and backup catcher who played from through in the all-american girls professional baseball league .
listed at , 135 lb. , she batted and threw right-handed .
the all-american girls professional baseball league flourished in the 1940s when major league baseball went on hold as men went to world war ii .
the league was created in 1943 by the chicago cubs ' owner philip k. wrigley , and disbanded at the end of the 1954 season .
in its twelve years of history , the aagpbl gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained .
it was not really a well known fact until filmmaker penny marshall premiered her 1992 film `` a league of their own '' , which was a fictionalized account of activities in the aagpbl .
starring geena davis , tom hanks , madonna , lori petty and rosie o'donnell , this film brought many of the real aagpbl former players began to earn a rebirth of celebrity .
