Shortstop in 1st women’s pro baseball league dies at 90
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. (AP) — A member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that was immortalized in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own” has died. Lucille “Lou” Richards was 90.
Jon Richards tells The Associated Press that his mother died May 20 at the Cape Royal Nursing and Rehab Facility in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. He says she died of complications from hydrocephalus.
She was a shortstop for the Racine Belles and the South Bend Blue Sox in 194
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