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Today in History - June 15 | The chilling words teenage stranger said after shooting baseball star
A teenager shot and nearly killed a star baseball player in a Chicago hotel room just after midnight on June 15, 1949.
Ruth Steinhagen, 19, had developed an intense crush on Cubs first baseman Eddie Waitkus.
She turned her bedroom into a shrine for Waitkus and began learning Lithuanian because that was his family's heritage.
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