The couple met in 1947, at a hockey rink in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Terry Donahue had recently moved to the U.S. to play baseball — in a skirt — for the now-famed All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Pat Henschel was a sinewy farm kid from a turbulent home. They fell in love, their swoony adoration immortalized in clandestine letters to one another with the signatures torn from the bottom of the pages so no one could later identify the authors.
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