Women Who Shot Eddie Waitkus, Inspired "The Natural" Dead

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http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9062395/obsessed-chicago-cubs-fan-inspired-natural-dead-83

Barbara Hershey portrayed her in The Natural.

 

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"Newspapers devoured and trumpeted the lurid story of a 19-year-old baseball groupie, known in the parlance of the day as a "Baseball Annie." Among the sensational and probably staged photos was one showing Steinhagen writing in her journal at a table in her jail cell with a framed photograph of Waitkus propped nearby."