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 | 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 | 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...
by admin | Apr 26, 2022 | Guest Blogs, Representation, SEW
In January 2020, Alyssa Nakken became the first full-time female coach in the history of Major League Baseball. Now her helmet is on its way to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY after making history for the second time Nakken, an assistant coach for the San...
by admin | Apr 17, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Alyssa Nakken of the SF Giants who became the first woman to coach on the field in an in season MLB game. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week once again to Russia who still has not released the WNBA’s...
by admin | Apr 13, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Alyssa Nakken was hard at work in the batting cage, just a few steps from the dugout, when suddenly the call came: The San Francisco Giants needed her to coach at first base. She quickly pulled off her sweatshirt, grabbed her No. 92 jersey and found a bright orange...
by admin | Apr 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Opening Day means an abundance of first pitches, but the best first pitch of the day may not have occurred in the United States. Before the start of a SSG Landers game in the KBO League, figure skater Kim Ye-lim threw out the first pitch in style. Ye-lim used her...
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...
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