File:Steinhagen note to Waitkus.png

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Note from Ruth Ann Steinhagen to Eddie Waitkus

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English: Ruth Ann Steinhagen (1929–2012) was an American woman who shot and nearly killed Eddie Waitkus, star first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies, on June 14, 1949. Image shows the note that Steinhagen wrote to Waitkus to lure him to her hotel room.
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Source New York Daily News of June 16, 1949, on page 44 via https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-waitkus-rallies-girl-tells-w/122169671/
Author Ruth Ann Steinhagen (1929–2012) wrote the letter; image of the letter distributed by Associated Press

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