by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Jen Pawol is on the verge of the unprecedented, though that was never her plan. She did not become an umpire for the fame. She never did this for attention. But minor league season after minor league season, correct call after correct call, promotion after promotion,...
by admin | Jul 7, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Rachel Balkovec, the first female manager in minor league baseball history, was ejected on Friday night. Balkovec manages the New York Yankees’ Single-A affiliate Tampa Tarpons. The umpire who gave her the can was also a woman. Read More
by admin | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Olivia Pichardo, a freshman pinch hitter at Brown University, wrote her name into the collegiate sports history books when she became the first woman to play in an NCAA Division I baseball game. Pichardo, who is of Dominican descent, stepped up to the plate at the...
by admin | Dec 22, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A local baseball team announced a historic signing Wednesday afternoon when they welcomed the first female player in league history onto their 2023 roster. Marika Lyszczyk, who is also the first female NCAA baseball catcher for the Sonoma State University Seawolves...
by admin | Dec 2, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Brown University first-year student Olivia Pichardo made history by becoming the first woman in history to play Division 1 college baseball. Pichardo spoke with ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos about how she has persisted and achieved success, the biggest challenges she sees...
by admin | Aug 17, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
For the second day in a row, female sporting history was made at the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games. Newfoundland and Labrador’s Jaida Lee became the first female to pitch in the men’s baseball competition at the Games on Monday at Welland Stadium. On Sunday,...
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Scott Whitmore stood along the concourse on a recent spring night watching the final inning of a Staten Island FerryHawks home game wind down when a New York City police officer approached him from the third-base side. “After the game,” the officer said sheepishly,...
by admin | Jun 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
It’s a whole new ballgame. Earlier this summer EW shared the first look at the A League of Their Ownseries, the long-anticipated TV reboot of Penny Marshall’s beloved 1992 film. Now the show is finally ready to step up to the plate, with Amazon Prime Video...
by admin | May 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In a pointed letter to teams last week, Major League Baseball said numerous clubs’ stadiums “fall embarrassingly below the high standards” necessary for women who are part of the game’s traveling parties to do their jobs, create an...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Colorado Rockies television reporter Kelsey Wingert said she’s “hanging in there,” two days after she was struck in the head by a 95 mph foul ball. The scary incident happened during Monday’s game between the Rockies and San Francisco Giants at...
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