The woman whose baseball career served as inspiration for the classic movie A League of Their Own has come out as gay at age 95.Maybelle Blair, a former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, opened up about her sexuality for the first time while promoting Amazon Prime's reboot of the 1992 film at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. 'I think it's a great opportunity for these young girl ball players to come [to] realize that they’re not alone, and you don’t have to hide,' she said of the new show. 'I hid for 75, 85 years and this is actually basically the first time I’ve ever come out.'
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