Bakers Dozen

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball
  8. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal) The Bad News Bears, Baseball

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball
  8. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal) The Bad News Bears, Baseball
  9. Kit Keller (Lori Petty, A League of Their Own, baseball

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball
  8. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal) The Bad News Bears, Baseball
  9. Kit Keller (Lori Petty, A League of Their Own, baseball
  10. K. C. Carr (Raquel Welch, Kansas City Bomber), roller derby

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball
  8. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal) The Bad News Bears, Baseball
  9. Kit Keller (Lori Petty, A League of Their Own, baseball
  10. K. C. Carr (Raquel Welch, Kansas City Bomber), roller derby
  11. Lucy Draper (Kathy Ireland), college football place kicker, movie Necessary Roughness

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball
  8. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal) The Bad News Bears, Baseball
  9. Kit Keller (Lori Petty, A League of Their Own, baseball
  10. K. C. Carr (Raquel Welch, Kansas City Bomber), roller derby
  11. Lucy Draper (Kathy Ireland), college football place kicker, movie Necessary Roughness
  12. Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), retired NFL player, The World According to Garp

Fictional Female Athletes and a Sport They Played

  1. Laura Carpenter, Clay Fingers, Tennis
  2. Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter series, Quidditch
  3. Dottie Hinson, A League of Their Own, Baseball
  4. Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), boxer in movie Girlfight
  5. Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway), track, Personal Best
  6. Maggie Fitzgerald (Hillary Swank), boxer, Million Dollar Baby
  7. Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh), A League of Their Own, baseball
  8. Amanda Whurlitzer (Tatum O’Neal) The Bad News Bears, Baseball
  9. Kit Keller (Lori Petty, A League of Their Own, baseball
  10. K. C. Carr (Raquel Welch, Kansas City Bomber), roller derby
  11. Lucy Draper (Kathy Ireland), college football place kicker, movie Necessary Roughness
  12. Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), retired NFL player, The World According to Garp
  13. Betty “Betty Spaghetti” Horn (Tracy Reiner), A League of Their Own, baseball
    Next, and I’ll try this one again,

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give flight and from/to cities)

  1. Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give flight and from/to cities)

  1. Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris

I added year and added that to your post, Professor. I hope you don’t mind.

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast

No problem, adding the year makes sense to me.

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)
  8. 1937, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Frankfurt to Newark

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)
  8. 1937, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Frankfurt to Newark
  9. 1985: Japan Airlines 123, Tokyo to Osaka (520 fatalities)

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)
  8. 1937, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Frankfurt to Newark
  9. 1985: Japan Airlines 123, Tokyo to Osaka (520 fatalities)
  10. 1983: Air Canada Flight 797: Dallas to Toronto

A passenger smoking in the lavatory set the plane on fire

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)
  8. 1937, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Frankfurt to Newark
  9. 1985: Japan Airlines 123, Tokyo to Osaka (520 fatalities)
  10. 1983: Air Canada Flight 797: Dallas to Toronto
  11. 2000: Air France Concorde Flight 4590 : Paris to New York

Not to be nitpicky, but it was most certainly an electrical fire. From wiki:

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)
  8. 1937, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Frankfurt to Newark
  9. 1985: Japan Airlines 123, Tokyo to Osaka (520 fatalities)
  10. 1983: Air Canada Flight 797: Dallas to Toronto
  11. 2000: Air France Concorde Flight 4590 : Paris to New York
  12. 1977: Pan Am flight 1736 and KLM flight 4805 collided at Tenerife in the Canary Islands (Pan Am was headed from LAX to Grand Canary Island; KLM was headed from Amsterdam to Grand Canary Island. Both planes had been re-routed due to a terrorist attack at the Grand Canary airport)

In Memorium to the 06 July Airplane Crash at SFO, Commercial Airline Crashes Resulting in Loss of Life (not fictional; give year, flight and from/to cities)

  1. 2013, Asiana 214: Seoul to San Francisco
  2. 2001, American Airlines Flight 587: New York City to Santo Domingo
  3. 2009, Air France 447: Rio to Paris
  4. 2001, United 93: Newark to San Francisco
  5. 1953, British European Airways Nutts Corner Viking Lord St. Vincent: London to Belfast
  6. 1998: Swissair Flight 111, New York to Geneva
  7. 1983, Korean Airlines 007, NYC to Seoul (shot down over Soviet airspace)
  8. 1937, LZ 129 Hindenburg, Frankfurt to Newark
  9. 1985: Japan Airlines 123, Tokyo to Osaka (520 fatalities)
  10. 1983: Air Canada Flight 797: Dallas to Toronto
  11. 2000: Air France Concorde Flight 4590 : Paris to New York
  12. 1977: Pan Am flight 1736 and KLM flight 4805 collided at Tenerife in the Canary Islands (Pan Am was headed from LAX to Grand Canary Island; KLM was headed from Amsterdam to Grand Canary Island. Both planes had been re-routed due to a terrorist attack at the Grand Canary airport)
  13. 1960: United Airlines Flight 826, Chicago to New York collides with Trans World Airlines Flight 266, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. This is the only midair crash of two USA airplanes in history.

Next up: Sports teams with a colorful nickname

  1. NY Jets: Gang Green