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Women’s baseball star, movie inspirer Davis dies

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Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, seen here in a file photo taken in 2010, was a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the movie "A League of Their Own." She died Saturday in Southern California. She was 88.

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Lavonne “Pepper” Paire-Davis, a star of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and an inspiration for the movie “A League of Their Own,” has died. She was 88.
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