Jean Faut, who pitched two perfect games in a remarkable career with the South Bend (Indiana) Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, died on Feb. 28 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She was 98.
Her death, in a hospice, was confirmed by her son Kevin Winsch.
Faut joined the league three years after it was introduced as a way to maintain public interest in baseball when many major league players had gone off to fight in World War II. The league was the subject of Penny Marshall¡¯s acclaimed 1992 film, ¡°A League of Their Own.¡±
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