Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
By Laura Pappano
News of Judge Sylvia Pressler’s death last week – at 75 at a family home in Sparta, NJ – drew a few paragraphs in the newspaper, but hardly attracted huge attention.
And yet, as spring training gets underway and kids prepare for Little League tryouts (now a winter affair), ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
The visual is stunning.
Click here to see the Little League Softball World Series championship TV schedule. You’ll find ESPN2 (the channel broadcasting women’s college hoops unless there is a men’s game that can’t fit the ESPN or network schedule) is showing two semi-final games on Tues., Aug. 18 ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Justine Siegal is billed by her team, The Brockton Rox, as the first woman to coach men’s professional baseball (they play in the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball or Can-Am League). She is also founder of BaseBall for All, which supports female players and provides baseball instruction around ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
On April 21, Bayone, N.J. Little Leaguer Mackenzie Brown pitched a perfect game, retiring all 18 boys who got up to bat; she was invited to throw out the first pitch a Met's game a few days later.
By Mackenzie Brown
I started playing baseball for the Cal Ripken League in Bayonne ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
In our insta-age, everything you hear about is old the second you’re in on it. But one big secret isn’t out: Girls are allowed to play baseball. (Well, kind of).
It’s 35 years since President Gerald Ford signed legislation opening Little League to girls, but it remains a shocker ...
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