Betty Trezza Dies

Betty Trezza, a pioneering player in the World War II-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and a model for one of the characters in the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 81.

Trezza died of a heart attack Tuesday at her childhood home in Brooklyn, N.Y., her sister-in-law Sally Trezza said.

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Lavonne Davis, who played with Trezza on the Belles, told the New York Times on Wednesday that the model for Madonna's character was Faye Dancer, who died in 2002. Davis said Trezza was possibly the inspiration for the "Betty Spaghetti" character, played by Tracy Reiner.

Rest In Peace, Betty.