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DIED. ROSE GACIOCH, 89, star pitcher and outfielder in the heyday of women's professional baseball; in Detroit. As a mainstay for the Rockford Peaches from 1945 to the team's demise in 1954, she was a three-time all-star and provided the model for Rosie O'Donnell's character in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.

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