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'League Of Own' Director

Penny Marshall Dies At 75

Penny Marshall last visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002, posing next to the "A League of their Own" case. (Milo Stewart Jr./National Baseball Hall of Fame)

COOPERSTOWN – Penny Marshall, who directed the baseball classic "A League of Their Own" after taking inspiration from as Baseball Hall of Fame exhibit, died Monday night in her Hollywood Hills home  due to complications from diabetes, said Michelle Bega, a spokeswoman for the family.

Laura Moellering, Cooperstown, recalled that her mother,  Rita Meyer, a former shortstop for the Peoria Redwings with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, met Marshall when, in 1988, she attended the 50th reunion and unveiling of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s “Women in Baseball” display.

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