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Former Daisies’ Ruby Heafner to Be Inducted into Gaston County Sports HOF

June 28th, 2008 | Author: Chad Gramling

Former Fort Wayne Daisies player, Ruby Heafner will be inducted into the Gaston County (Ohio) Sports Hall of Fame during a September 8 ceremony at Cramer Mountain Country Club.

Heafner played in the short-lived All-American Girls Professional Baseball League immortalized in the 1992 Hollywood movie “A League Of Their Own” that starred Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna. A catcher who was often compared to Detroit Tigers’ Hall of Famer Mickey Cochrane, Heafner was nicknamed “Rebel” and played for Rockford, Fort Wayne, Racine and Battle Creek over a six-year career lasting from 1946 through 1951 – or shortly after Heafner served two years in the U.S. military.

After the women’s pro baseball league folded, Heafner returned to her native city where she worked for the city recreation department, helped coached girls softball and served as a volunteer at Gaston Memorial Hospital.

Source: Gaston Gazette

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3 Responses to “Former Daisies’ Ruby Heafner to Be Inducted into Gaston County Sports HOF”

  • Darrell Hunt:
    August 16, 2010 at 8:43 am

    I recently came across a baseball card of ruby with her stats an it is signed by her.Is she still around ,thought she may like to have it. Or you think it is worth anything

  • Banyon:
    August 29, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    I spent some time with Ruby this week. Ruby lives in an assisted living facility in her home county in North Carolina. She is still ambulatory and enjoys talking about her career and signing her baseball cards. The facility has a glass case in the lobby with memorabilia about Ruby’s baseball career.

  • Nancy Doyle Palmer:
    January 4, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    I’ve been trying to find Ruby. She lived with us when She played for the Fort Wayne Daisies and was a lovely young woman. We attended every game we could during those few years. It was wonderful.

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