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sonny berger

margaret `` sonny '' eloise berger -lrb- born december 24 , 1922 -rrb- is a former pitcher who played from through in the all-american girls professional baseball league .
listed at , 129 lb. , she batted and threw right-handed .
the aagpbl changed women 's team sports forever .
still , the void the league filled during world war ii was inspiration enough for the 1992 film `` a league of their own '' , directed by penny marshall and starred by geena davis , tom hanks and madonna , where was born in homestead , florida , sonny berger was one of the sixty original players of the all-american girls professional baseball league in its inaugural season .
the aagpbl was introduced in the spring of 1943 , featuring young women with both athletic ability and feminine appeal .
hundreds of girls were invited to final tryouts at wrigley field in chicago , illinois .
of those , sixty were selected as the first women to play on the first four teams : the kenosha comets , racine belles , rockford peaches and south bend blue sox .
each team had fifteen players , a manager , a business manager and a female chaperone .
most aagpbl games were played at night , including the all-star game of the inaugural season on july 1 , 1943 , which also was the first contest played under artificial illumination at wrigley field .
berger was allocated to the south bend blue sox , playing for them two seasons , to become a major star in both years .
she posted two straight 20-win seasons , going 25 -- 13 with a 1.91 earned run average in 1943 , following with a 21 -- 17 mark in 1944 , including a miserly 1.57 era .
in 1943 , she joined doris barr to pitch 79 of the 91 games played by the blue sox -lrb- barr was credited with 15 wins -rrb- .
in the same season , berger stated her greatest triumph .
a 13-inning match , which she won 1 -- 0 .
berger compiled a 46 -- 30 record and a 1.75 era in 88 career games .
she also hit a modest .153 average with 18 runs batted in in 88 games , but she only was striking out six times in 222 at-bats .
after that , berger played for the chicago chicks and thillens checashers of the national girls baseball league .
berger currently lives in sun city west , arizona .
