Anna May Hutchison 1998 Deaths

Anna May Hutchison

professional baseball player who dazzled crowds during World War II and was immortalized in the 1992 motion picture “A League of Their Own”; “Hutch” broke in as a catcher with the Racine Belles of the All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League before switching to pitcher, a move that paid off during the 1946-47 season when she mastered the new side-arm delivery and won 53 games; she was a star for the league which formed during the war to provide entertainment for workers; she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and was an elementary teacher with Kenosha Unified Schools for 16 years before retiring in 1987; of natural causes