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The state of Our Sport Today

Members of women's baseball community continue to make headlines.

D-backs name Gajownik as 1st woman skipper at High-A level

1/20/2023

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PHOENIX -- When Ronnie Gajownik was growing up in Orlando, Fla., her dad would sometimes take her out of school to go to a Spring Training game with him. Baseball was a passion for her, but as she would stare out onto the field, there was something she didn't see -- people who looked like her. Instead, it was a game played, coached and managed by men.

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MLB.com
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Meet Olivia Pichardo, the First Woman in Division 1 Baseball: 'Inspiring Girls Is My Biggest Motivator'

1/12/2023

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After making sports history as the first female NCAA Division 1 baseball player, Pichardo says playing for the next generation of female baseball players is her "biggest motivator"

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People Magazine
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Bringing women’s baseball to the Heights

10/12/2022

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Twenty-four female players showed off their talents at a two-day invitational at Boston College, organized by Boston College alumna Lena Park ’11

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bc.edu

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Alex Hugo and Ashton Lansdell are bashing homers for the future of women's baseball

10/11/2022

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When FTX MLB Home Run Derby X star Alex Hugo arrived at the U.S. Women's National Team tryout camp in 2018, she had never played organized baseball before.

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MLB.com
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Kelsie Whitmore: Working My Way to the Big Leagues

10/5/2022

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So there's this one facial expression.
I've seen it hundreds of times, maybe thousands — so many times that I actually have my own name for it. 


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Making history for a's, Veronica Alvarez embraces her ability to inspire

8/19/2022

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After Veronica Alvarez finished playing for the USA Baseball Women’s National Team, she knew she would go into coaching. But doing so in affiliated baseball, Alvarez said, was not a path she considered at the time.

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The USA—Canada Friendship Series Proves Women’s Baseball Has a Promising Future

8/12/2022

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The top women players in these two countries are out to show they belong on the international stage.
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Elise Berger makes US women's national baseball team

7/26/2022

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Vermont's Elise Berger has landed on the United States' women's national baseball team.
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Baseball pioneer Beth Greenwood continues blazing a trail from behind the plate

7/4/2022

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In the spring of 2021, Beth Greenwood became the first American woman to catch in an NCAA men's baseball game.
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