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Four STL women in pro baseball subject of March 17 event

If there is one thing St. Louis Browns fan club president Ed Wheatley loves to do, it's talk about baseball.

This time, however, his chat will not be about our burg's long-gone lovable losers of the American League.

At 6 p.m. March 17 at the Warrenton Public Library, Wheatley will look at the careers of four STL women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

The league operated for 12 seasons, 1943 to 1954, and was immortalized by the 1992 movie, "A League Of Their Own."

One woman who played in the league is Barbara Hoffmann, 89, of Belleville, who played two years, 1951-52, for the South Bend Blue Sox.