Doris Sams, Women’s Baseball Pioneer, Dies at 85
Doris Sams, a pioneering women’s baseball star who inspired the film “A League of Their Own,” died Thursday, June 23rd in Knoxville from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 85. Sams, known as Sammy to her teammates and friends, was one of the leading players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded in 1943 […]
