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Real-life 'League of Their Own' player raises money for 94th birthday to build women's baseball center

Pete Van Vleet/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (SUNSET BEACH, Calif.) — The time that Maybelle Blair played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the inspiration for the 1992 film A League of Their Own, were some of the best years of her life. So to celebrate her 94th birthday, on Jan. 16, Blair, of Sunset Beach, California, is raising money to help give young girls a shot in baseball, and to commemorate the women in baseball like herself on whose shoulders they stand. “We want to be able to have a league of our own again, to have a home of

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