Betsy Jochum, star in baseball’s real ‘league of their own’, dies at 104 By Brian Murphy The Washington Post,Updated June 5, 2025, 3:17 p.m.

Betsy Jochum has passed away at age 104. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League confirmed that Jochum, the last member of the original group that inspired the 1992 film A League of ...

Betsy Jochum won the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's batting title in 1948. But it took "A League of Their Own" to bring her fame.

Rest in peace. Betsy "Sockum" Jochum, an original member of the women's baseball league that inspired the 1992 film A League of Their Own, has died ...

Betsy "Sock'em" Jochum died Saturday at 104-years-old. Jochum was a member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1948.

Betsy Jochum, the pioneering baseball player who starred in the real-life version of “A League of Their Own” and blazed a trail for women’s sports in America, has died at 104. Playing left ...

Betsy Jochum, the last of the 60 players from the inaugural season of what became known as the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League -- which decades later inspired Penny Marshall's 1992 ...

Jochum played the entirety of her six year career (1943-1948) with the South Bend (Indiana) Blue Sox. Location Currently not on view Credit Line Gift of Betsy Jochum date made ca 1943 ID Number ...