• Ruth Ann Steinhagen (born Ruth Catherine Steinhagen; December 23, 1929 – December 29, 2012) was an American woman who shot and nearly killed Eddie Waitkus...
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    Robert Redford's character, inspired by a real-life incident where Ruth Ann Steinhagen shot ballplayer Eddie Waitkus. For the role of Harriet Bird, Hershey...
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  • tells the story of Eddie Waitkus, a baseball player who was shot by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, a female stalker, in an incident which inspired the fictionalized...
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  • room before committing suicide. Her character is loosely based on Ruth Ann Steinhagen, a disturbed 19-year-old baseball fan who, obsessed with Eddie Waitkus...
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    Shriver was appointed President of the Chicago Board of Education. Ruth Ann Steinhagen, typist notable for attempting to murder Eddie Waitkus. Charlie Trotter...
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    broadcaster. As of September 2017, he is a midday radio host at WLS-AM. Ruth Ann Steinhagen (1929-2012), secretary who attempted to murder Eddie Waitkus in 1949...
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    few years into the start of what seemed a very promising career, Ruth Ann Steinhagen, an obsessed fan, shot Waitkus at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel...
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  • 1921) Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., army general (b. 1934) December 29 Ruth Ann Steinhagen, notable criminal (b. 1929) Mike Auldridge, musician (b. 1938) December...
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  • Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, an obsessed fan, at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel. The shooting...
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    lineman 2003–12 Jack Steinberger, physicist, Nobel Prize winner Ruth Ann Steinhagen, shot ballplayer Eddie Waitkus, inspired The Natural John Henry Stelle...
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    Although Waitkus would miss much of the 1949 season after being shot by Ruth Ann Steinhagen (an obsessed fan), he would play a key role on the 1950 "Whiz Kids"...
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  • Waitkus was shot and wounded in his Chicago hotel room by deranged fan Ruth Ann Steinhagen in one of the earliest recognized cases of criminal stalking. Albert...
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  • Stark, 79, American cartoonist (New York Daily News), emphysema. Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 83, American stalker, shot Eddie Waitkus, inspiration for The Natural...
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  • Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus is shot in Chicago by deranged fan Ruth Ann Steinhagen. June 25 – College World Series - Texas Longhorns defeated Wake Forest...
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  • Wu, Yuping; Saha, Prasenjit Prasad; Demuth, Ilja; König, Maximilian; Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth; Cajka, Tomas; Fiehn, Oliver; Landmesser, Ulf; Tang...
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    United States Department of Justice. Retrieved March 21, 2021. "Tex Pe. Code Ann. § 9.42: Texas Statutes—Section 9.42: Deadly Force to Protect Property"....
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  • character Annie Savoy in the 1988 American film "Bull Durham". Infamous Ruth Ann Steinhagen was the first "Baseball Annie". She became obsessed with Cubs and...
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