Who doesn’t love a good love story? And Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel have one of the best love stories ever. The two women met in 1947, when Donahue was playing baseball for the Peoria (Ill.) Redwings in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and spent the next 72 years together, until Donahue’s death in 2019 at the age of 93.
The women were married in 2015, on Donahue’s 90th birthday, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Netflix released A Secret Love, a documentary about their 72 years in love, in April 2020. And today, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum honored their love — and Donahue’s contributions to the sport of baseball — with the release of