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She was born in Detroit, Michigan.
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Sarah Lonetto
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Career
As a professional baseball player for the league, Sarah threw right-handed and batted both rightand left-handed. Her nickname was Tomato. Sarah started playing amateur ball at around 15 years old.
At 24 years old, she began playing for the league.
In 1943 she was approached by Philip Wrigley who she remembers was "really nice." Four years later she started playing for the Racine Belles. The two other teams Sarah played for were the Muskegon Lassies (in 1948, 1949), with manager Bill Wambsganss and the Rockford Peaches.
She believes she earned herself the nickname Tomato from a friend who started calling her that, because she had a rather red complexion. Although she thought all the teams she played in were great, Sarah had a particular fondness for the Racine Belles.
But, overall, all the girls were great.
In 1988 she attended an AAGPBL reunion that took place at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New New York Sarah was pleased with how the movie came out. She has two copies of lieutenant
She commented: “lieutenant"s pretty good, pretty darn good.
From there Gary Marshall took it upon himself and was really good!”.
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April 24, 2009 (aged 86) -
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American