by admin | Apr 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The thing to understand about 23-year-old Kelsie Whitmore’s path to signing a contract with the Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks—the highest level attained by a woman in professional baseball in more than a generation—is that there is no path. Not for women...
by admin | Apr 4, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Playfully wearing a Tampa Bay Buccaneers football helmet, New York Yankees minor league manager Rachel Balkovec was back on the field Saturday. Balkovec, hired as the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a major league team, was hit in the face by a...
by admin | Mar 24, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Rachel Balkovec, hired by the New York Yankees as the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a Major League Baseball team, was hit in the face by a batted ball during a drill and will be sidelined for up to a week. Balkovec was struck Tuesday. She will not...
by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Caitlyn Callahan was standing in a Starbucks in the fall 2019 when she peered down at her phone and was met with a jolt that changed the course of her life. A couple of clicks told her the New York Yankees had just made Rachel Balkovec the first woman to be a...
by admin | Jan 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
One of the few times Genevieve Beacom can remember boys or men objecting to her playing baseball among them came when she was 11. She was a star pitcher, even at that age, and a boy on another team was so adamant about not facing her that he began to cry. Was he...
by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Rachel Balkovec, a groundbreaking baseball coach, will become the manager of a team in the Yankees’ minor league system, making her the first woman to lead an affiliated professional baseball squad. Balkovec, 34, will manage the Tampa Tarpons, the low Class A...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
On the evening of Jan. 30, 2017, a woman showed up at a police station in Southern California to report an alleged sexual assault. After attending the Los Angeles Dodgers’ FanFest two days earlier, the woman told police, she met up with a man she had casually dated....
by admin | Dec 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Major League Baseball entered its first work stoppage in 26 years early Thursday morning, and while it’s unclear how exactly the long-simmering dispute between the game’s millionaires and billionaires will play out over the coming weeks, if it lingers into February...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After a pandemic year that upended athletics as much as any industry, 2021 saw the gradual return of fans to the sports they love. Tokyo hosted the 2020 Olympics (without spectators) on a one-year delay, professional teams implemented Covid-19 vaccine requirements and...
by admin | Nov 2, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
128 home runs. 0.237 batting average. 322 runs batted in. Superstar Hunter Renfroe already has many accomplishments as a Major League Baseball player; he has been a prominent outfielder for the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, and now the Boston Red Sox. His...
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