There was a merging of generations on the final day of the Women's Professional Baseball League tryouts.

The 98-year-old former baseball pitcher Maybelle Blair kicked off the first of two live scrimmage games at Nationals Park by throwing out the first pitch to 24-year-old former Little league sensation Mo'ne Davis.

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Blair, full of the same vibrance and wit she had when she helped inspire the baseball film “A League of Their Own” with her play in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was happy to symbolically pass the women's baseball torch.

She waited long enough.

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“You have no idea what I went through when I was playing ball,” Blair said, "

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