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16 january 2007 brooklyn , new york right brooklyn , new york .173 .256 .211 all-american girls professional baseball league utility 4 august 1925 betty trezza.jpg betty trezza
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betty trezza

betty trezza -lsb- ″ moe ″ -rsb- -lrb- august 4 , 1925 -- january 16 , 2007 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player .
an infield and outfield utility , she played from through for four different teams of the all-american girls professional baseball league .
trezza was one of 25 players who made the all-american girls professional baseball league clubs hailed from new york city and state , including muriel bevis , gloria cordes , mildred deegan , nancy mudge and margaret wigiser .
born in brooklyn , new york to italian parents , she was a versatile defensive player with a light bat , being able to play all positions except pitcher and catcher .
trezza entered the league in 1944 with the expansion minneapolis millerettes , playing for them one year before joining the fort wayne daisies -lrb- 1945 -rrb- , south bend blue sox -lrb- 1946 -rrb- and racine belles -lrb- 1946 -- 1950 -rrb- .
her most productive season came in the 1946 series for racine , when she hit a single to drove in sophie kurys with the winning run to give the belles their second championship title .
through the eyes of a fictional young girl , the children 's book `` dirt on their skirts '' tells the experiences of watching the 1946 championship game of the all-american girls professional baseball league as it goes into extra innings .
following her baseball career , trezza worked as a supervisor for data entry at pfizer , inc. she was one of the female ballplayers popularized in the 1992 film `` a league of their own '' , of filmmaker penny marshall and starred by geena davis , tom hanks and madonna .
trezza , who never married , died of a heart attack in her hometown of brooklyn at the age of 81 .
