Betsy "Sockum" Jochum, a South Bend Blue Sox player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, died at age 104. Jochum lived in Cheviot before playing professional baseball from 1943-1948 ...

Betsy Jochum, an original member of the women's baseball league that inspired the film A League of Their Own, has died. Jochum was 104 when she passed away in South Bend, Indiana.

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 ...

Betsy "Sockum" Jochum, an original member of the women's baseball league that inspired the 1992 film A League of Their Own, has died. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum wrote via ...

Betsy "Sochum" Jochum, of the South Bend Blue Sox, celebrated her 101st birthday Feb. 8. Also, Casimer Pikuza, Marie Kangas and Grace Kline remembered ...

On Thursday, Betsy “Sockum” Jochum will be inducted into the South Bend Community Hall of Fame. Betsy was a pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).

There is a lot to celebrate when it comes to Betsy Jochum. She is a baseball pioneer, a teacher, a historian in her own right and soon to be a centenarian. Her 100th birthday is Feb. 8.

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 "Sochum" Jochum, of the South Bend Blue Sox, celebrated her 101st birthday Feb. 8. Also, Casimer Pikuza, Marie Kangas and Grace Kline remembered ...

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.