Doris Sams, pro baseball star, dies at 85
Doris Sams, who pitched a perfect game and set a single-season home run record in the women's professional baseball world of the 1940s and 50s that inspired the movie ``A League of Their Own,'' died Thursday in Knoxville, Tenn. She was 85.
St. John's legend LeRoy Ellis, who turned a standout Redman career into a 14-year NBA legacy with a world championship in 1972, died Saturday in Portland, Ore., at the age of 72 after a long battle with prostate cancer.