Gertrude Dunn
{{Short description|American baseball player}}
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| name = Gertrude Dunn
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| team = All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
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| position = Shortstop
| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|09|30}}
| birth_place = Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|09|29|1933|09|30}}
| death_place = Avondale, Pennsylvania
| bats = Right
| throws = Right
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| debutyear = 1951
| debutteam = Battle Creek Belles
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| finalyear = 1954
| finalteam = South Bend Blue Sox
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- Battle Creek Belles (1951)
- South Bend Blue Sox (1951–1954)
|highlights=
- Rookie of the year (1952)
- Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)
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| league= International
| ncaa_team= West Chester
| class = 1960
| team=US Women's National Team
| nationality = American
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| uslaxhof_year = 2007
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Gertrude Dunn (September 30, 1933{{spaced ndash}}September 29, 2004) was an American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league made famous by the 1992 film A League Of Their Own.[http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/gertrude-dunn-gertie/367 Gertrude Dunn – Profile / Obituary]. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
Career
Dunn played shortstop on two teams, the Battle Creek Belles and the South Bend Blue Sox, and was named "Rookie of the Year" in 1952.
When the league was unable to continue in 1955, Dunn joined several other players selected by former Fort Wayne Daisies manager Bill Allington to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans All-Stars. The team played 100 games, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan. Besides Dunn, the Allington All-Stars included players as Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Betty Foss, Mary Froning, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder, Jean Smith, Dolly Vanderlip and Joanne Weaver, among others.
She later attended West Chester University of Pennsylvania and graduated with the class of 1960. name="wcu">{{cite web|url=http://www.wcupagoldenrams.com/news/2007/5/26/dunn%20nlhof.aspx|title=West Chester University Athletics - Gertrude Dunn Part of 50th Class Selected To National Lacrosse Hall of Fame|accessdate=2009-09-30}} Dunn was a player on the United States women's national field hockey team. She also coached field hockey and was named to the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame on January 16, 1988.{{cite web|url=http://www.usfieldhockey.com/history/hof.htm|title=USA Field Hockey: Field Hockey Hall of Fame|accessdate=2009-09-28}}
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== Batting ==
== Fielding ==
Death and legacy
At the age of 70, on September 29, 2004, Dunn died in Avondale, Pennsylvania when the Piper Archer airplane she was solo-piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from New Garden Airport.{{cite news|date=October 2, 2004|title=Gertrude Dunn, 72; Women's Professional Baseball League Star|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-02-me-passings2.3-story.html|access-date=2019-03-30}}
She was posthumously inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum in Baltimore, Maryland in 2007.{{cite web|title=National Lacrosse Hall of Fame: Gertrude Dunn|url=http://www.uslacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=348|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815045355/http://www.uslacrosse.org/museum/halloffame/view_profile.php?prof_id=348|archive-date=2009-08-15|accessdate=2009-09-30}}
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Category:People from Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
Category:Baseball players from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Category:All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
Category:Battle Creek Belles players
Category:South Bend Blue Sox players
Category:American female field hockey players
Category:American field hockey coaches
Category:West Chester Golden Rams baseball players
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2004