During World War II, many professional baseball players entered the U.S. military and many men’s teams disbanded, creating a need for new professional players and teams that led to the creation of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1943. Sunbury native Marilyn “Corky” Olinger joined the league in 1948 and played 599 games with the Chicago Colleens and the Grand Rapids Chicks. The daughter of Carl and Maud Olinger, she had a batting average of .220 during her career. After breaking an ankle, she left the league in 1953. At its peak, the league had ten teams, and each team had fifteen players, a manager, and a female chaperone. After World War II ended and men’s baseball returned, the league’s popularity began to wane, and it disbanded in 1954. In 1992, the All American Girls Professional Baseball League was the subject of the Penny Marshall movie “A League of Their Own,” and it was honored with an exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, in 2006.