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women in baseball

Life imitates art?

June 30, 2016

Several weeks ago, I posted about Pitch, a new TV show coming to FOX this fall. It’s the story about the first woman player in the Major Leagues. Well the Sonoma Stompers aren’t exactly the Show, but they are a pro outfit. They recently signed two women to their roster. Tomorrow night, Kelsie Whitmore (below, […]

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Coming down the pike

January 21, 2016

Lisa Iannucci at The GetMoreSports site included four baseball titles among her “Anticipated Sports Books of 2016.”  Is it picayune to note that “anticipated” does not mean “looked forward to,” but merely “expected?” Anyway, the titles include (with the writer’s commentary): DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers by Tony Castro is due out […]

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Since I posted the first of these on a Thursday, which is known on social media as a time of reflection, I thought to make it a regular thing under this rubric. These are kind of fun; it’s like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna get. (Actually, I never understood […]

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It’s always a pleasure to post a review from a friend of the blog. In this case we have Dorothy Mills, baseball historian and author of such books as A Woman’s Work: Writing Baseball History With Harold Seymour; Chasing Baseball: Our Obsession with Its History, Numbers, People and Places; and Drawing Card: A Baseball Novel, […]

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The New York Times ran this article today about the increased number of women in administrative positions in baseball. How coincidental, then, to find this entry from the We’ve Got Heart blog, featuring interviews some of these ladies as well as author Jane “Confessions of a She-Fan” Heller and, coming soon. Cait “Crazy ’08” Murhpy.

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When it comes to the national pastime, female athletes find many doors closed despite laws designed to afford them equal opportunities. Marilyn Cohen chronicles these issues in her new book, No Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball (McFarland). Although girls and women have played the game since the mid-19th century, their […]

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