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© SABR-Winter 2010 Issue Please send all updates, ideas, suggestions etc.. To [email protected] or call 330-244-3304

Welcome to winter, a time to prepare for a December 2010 new baseball season. Volume I, Issue 3 With the coming of the making of this film.Baseball The Exhibt “Linedrives and Lipstick” enjoyed a snow and colder weather it for all has a new website— Inside this issue: seems like baseball season check it out and see all the great response while it was may be a long way from changes. at Ursiline College and it coming but each day brings Www.baseballforall.com has moved on. If it comes Updates 2 us closer. to your area be sure to Beth Bollinger, author of check it out. If you are a computer savvy Until the End of the Ninth, Research 5 person you should check had her writer's blog fea- Laura Purcell informs us that the NY Mets give a lot out all the exciting places tured in become.com, of attention to Joan Payson that carry women’s baseball which is a comparative Available Arti- 5 in their Hall of Fame. cles news. There are a variety of shopping website - here's the link - Thanks for that News. face book pages and twitter New Books 3 accounts. You can follow http:// How many of you knew , the Califor- pock- that Judy Walton Scarafile nia Women’s baseball etchange.become.com/201 has been the longtime Historical Fig- 6 ures league and Leslie Heaphy, 0/08/accidental-rabbit- president of the Cape Cod League? How many other just to name a few exam- trails-blog.html female executives are there Baseball News 5 ples. On Kickstarter there It was also on the front currently in baseball? has been a recent series of page of become.com - Baseball News 3 articles about a documen- which is kind of exciting - Keep the news coming!! tary film underway by Cami scroll down a little - it's Kidder. She is looking for under "shopping blog"- Leslie and Claudia donations to support the http://www.become.com/ Special points of interest: we want to get us all on the • New books by Bob same page. This way we Luke, Stephanie Liscio... Stay Connected can send updates, newslet- ters etc.. to all who are in- • Justine Siegal at It was proposed this spring through. If you want to be terested. We can also use Winter Meetings that we need to do more to involved and know what’s the new medias of the day • www.baseballforall keep in touch with one happening please send your to help us such as facebook .com another and stay updated name and preferred e-mail etc.. So please send your • SABR Day 2011 on what is happening. I contact to me at contact info along with agree. I began a list based [email protected] so we your primary involvement on those who sent me their can build one giant list of in baseball—fan, player, contact information. So far supporters. It exists in writer, etc… thanks 15 people have followed many places right now and Leslie Operations-updates

Shari Massengill, General Manager Robin Wallace is Executive Director of the of the Kinston Braves has been North American Women’s League. Watch for news about SABR 41 moved up to Assistant General and what we’ll be doing to cele- Manager of the Triple A Gwinnett Melanie Laspina is the President of the Cali‐ Braves. Massengill had been with fornia Women’s Baseball League. brate women in baseball in Southern California in July the Kinston club for 13 years, five of those as General Manager. Her 2011. highly successful tenure saw atten‐ dance for the Indians increase by 25 % and the club won the Carolina League pennant and in 2007 Mas‐ sengill was named Rawlings Women Executive of the Year. Marlene Campbell is currently the honorary President of the Austrian Baseball Federation and was previ‐ ously the president. She is a board member for the International Base‐ ball Federation and in 1998 was named IBAF Executive of the Year.

Photo from Melanie Laspina Books News Audrey Vernick‘s picture book entitled centers strongly in the stories she tells. She Loved Baseball: The Check out Maria Testa’s young adult Story is now out and her second, fiction entitled Some Kind of Pride and Brothers at Bat is coming in 2011. Kristi Robert’s My Thirteenth Season. Stephanie Liscio’s book on Integrating Deborah Hopkinson’s book Girl Won- Cleveland Baseball is also now out. der is about Alta Weiss. Jane Heller’s book is about her love for Arelo Sederberg’s The Girl Who Saved the NY Yankees. Baseball is a fun read. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 1997 book is a story of her childhood and baseball 2010 World Cup Japan won the Gold Medal, beating wan, the Netherlands and Canada also Australia 13-3 in the medal game. took part in the tournament. Bravo to all the ladies on Japan and Japan and Australia led all teams in Australia’s teams. The United States batting while Japan and Taiwan led in defeated Venezuela to win the bronze ERA. The leading hitter was Rokkaku medal, 15-5. Ayako from Japan, hitting .643. Nagu- Japan beat the US 6-1 to make it to the chi Kasumi, also of Japan led all pitch- title game while Australia beat Vene- ers with a 0.00 ERA in 2 games.. Sato zuela 12-2. Ayami finished with a 3-0 record and South Korea, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Tai- a .53 ERA for Japan. of the Year 2010. Jenny Marston USA BB Sportswoman

Page 2 Women in Baseball and Susan Petrone at the Indians game before the opening of the Linedrives and Lipstick exhibit.

More baseball news

The Plush Life featured Baseball For all The Chicago Women’s baseball league on their TV program. Host Jen Rose published a newsletter in Fall 2010. devoted Check it out at episode 20: http://alpha.chicagowbl.com season 2 to It includes an interview with girls’ base- Heather Navotny who played baseball ballyou a Www.plushlifetv.com in Korea. look at her .

New Books

Bob Luke’s book on Effa Manley is due out in January 2011. Barbara Gregorich has put out a collection of research articles that were part of the work she did for Women at Play. It is now available in paperback and for the Kindle. Jane Leavy’s novel Squeeze Play is not new but may be new to many of our readers. It was published in 2003. Jody Studdard’s new book A Different Dia- mond is based on real life player Amanda Tsujikawa.

Volume I, Issue 3 Page 3 National Youth Baseball Championship in Memphis

Lots of coverage was given to the girls Katie Burt hit a three- homer in one who played in Memphis this fall. The of the games while Casey McCrackin 13u girls team for Baseball for All went and Maddy Lewis hit in the park hom- to Memphis to play in three games. ers. MLB interviewed Katie Burt about Included among the players were Ally her nearly 300 ft. homerun. Mishol who was featured at www.WWLP.com. Chelsea Baker also pitched for the team and you can read about her latest games in the Commercial Appeal. Baker also joined teammate Nylah Ra- mirez on Fox News live while in Mem- phis. Nice job girls.

Photo from Melanie Laspina Other News

EMU Hall of Fame member Jean Contact them at Cione passed away on November 22, National Baseball Hall create its elec- [email protected]. 2010. Cione taught high school physi- tronic field trip entitled “Dirt on their ************* cal education for 10 years and was a Skirts”. professor of sports medicine at Easter Ann Cindric of the AAGPBL passed for almost 30 years. She was the away on Dec. 18, 2010. She played for school’s first female athletic director the Muskegon and . and coached track and field as well as Our sympathies to family and friends of basketball. She played for 10 years in both ladies. the AAGPBL and finished with a re- ************ cord of 76-65 and a 2.33 ERA. Cione The California women’s baseball league also served as VP of the AAGPBL is looing for volunteers, sponsors and Player’s Association. She helped the players to keep operating in 2011.

Photo from Melanie Laspina http://www.eusa.org/SiteResources/Data/Templates/t2.asp?docid=662&DocName=Linedrives% 20and%20Lipstick Check out the above link to find out where the Linedrives and Lipstick ex- SABR DAY 2011—check out the hibit is going to be next. There are SABR webpage to see what is happen- even a few open dates on their calen- ing in your area to celebrate baseball on dar. January 29th. Many chapters are hav- ing special guests and some are even having joint events. Some of the events will be held at the Baseball Hall of Fame. http://sabr.org

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Articles for this newsletter sent from: “Creole Player Hurt.” 7/8/48. *** “Interest in Girls Baseball Keeps Ex- Terrie Aamodt, Bill Dougherty, John panding” www.maxpreps.com “Short Skirts or No Game” NY Eve- Kovach, Larry Lester, Stephanie Liscio, ning World, 6 May 1893. “ Alyssa Freeman Fires Up Base- Bill Nowlin, Claudia Perry, Christian ball.” www.youth1.com Purdy, Dorothy Seymour Mills, Justine “Women in Baseball.” History paper Siegal, Wayne Stivers, written by Lindsay Maroney “Longmeadow’s Ally Mishol, 13, Com- petes at all-girls baseball exhibition in “Racine Belles” Thesis submitted by Available for SASE *** Tennessee.” www.masslive.com Jacqueline Dupont, May 2010. “OUP Gives long overdue credit to “She’s a Girl among Women in a Male “The women’s Right to Participate in Female Baseball Historian.” Publisher’s dominated Game.” Phil. Inquirer, Baseball.” David Fintz Weekly, 8/20/10.*** 9/4/10 “Batting Down Baseball’s Barriers.” 26 “Author Credit” NYT, 8/23/10.*** “Burt has a Memorable Time in Mem- November 2010 *** “Studebaker Opponent has two Girls phis.” www.itemlive.com. “Girls Baseball Day Pitched in Las Ve- in Its Lineup.” 7/7/48 .*** “Star Girls Pitcher may Steal the Show gas.” By Benjamin Hill, minor league from Top Boys teams.” The Commer- “Studebaker’s Beat Creoles; Play To- baseball website night.” 7/8/48.*** cial Appeal, August 26, 2010.

A request: I would like anyone involved in women's baseball to send me video clips, photos, stories, articles, images, etc. that they wish to be included... ones that are free of copyright restrictions or that are sent to me from the authors/artists, of course. Please mention that I can't guarantee that each piece will be included, but I'll do my best to include a lot. The movie will cover the whole span and history of women's baseball from its beginnings, so historical info and artifacts also are needed.

I plan to call it "Transforming the Baseball Mind: The Sisterhood of Baseball". Shawna Macurio [email protected]

Research Requests

Anyone with any information about League Park in Cleveland please let us the Hagerstown Molls please pass it on know. A graduate student could use your so it can be shared with a researcher. help. Love to find out more about Isabelle If you attend any current women’s baseball Baxter—find anything at all please send events please send stories and photos that along. can be used in the newsletter to spread the Looking for information on Maud Nel- word. son. Send info. to Leslie as we are col- If you are looking for help please send lecting information to try to make a your requests and we will publish. case for her election to the hall of fame. (painting by artist Ben Sakoguchi) Anyone with photos of the original

Volume I, Issue 3 Page 5 SABR 2010 Contact: Leslie Heaphy [email protected] 330-244-3304 Updates: (by Jean Ardell) June's 22nd Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture fea- tured Claire Smith as the symposium's first invited female keynote speaker. Smith spoke eloquently on "Race and Gender: Perspectives from the Press Www.awbf.org Box", drawing in part upon her years (1987-1998) in MLB's press boxes. Smith also took part in the panel discussion "Women Write Baseball: No More Skirting the Issue Anymore", which drew about 100 audience members. Moderated by Jean Hastings Ardell, the panel also included Debbie Shattuck, of Rapid City, Iowa, Judith Testa, Northern Illinois University, and Dorothy Seymour Mills, of Naples, Florida. Mills, by the way, was the keynote speaker at the first sympo- sium, when she pinch-hit for her husband Harold Seymour. The subject of what women bring to baseball research and writing was thoroughly covered by the panelists, as writers, historians, academicians, and reporters. ***************************************************************** As part of the Baseball Reliquary's (www.baseballreliquary.com) day-long pres- entation "Ball Four Turns Forty", writer David Davis moderated a panel discus- sion on the social implications of Jim Bouton's iconoclastic memoir of 1970. Panelists included the author himself, screenwriter Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), bookstore owner David Kipen, and writer Jean Hastings Ardell. Held at the Bur- bank Central Library on September 18, 2010, the event drew a SRO crowd.

More Articles and other details “Baseball has Room for Girls” by Doing some research yourself? Then Tommy Hicks, 13 August 2010.*** think about submitting a research Happy Holidays to all and a happy 2011. Baseball season “Alex Hebert Makes Team USA Base- proposal for the SABR national. will be here before we know it!! ball Squad” 8/11/2010 *** Proposals are now being accepted for research and poster presentations. “Sailors Playing Ball for US Women’s Send proposals to sabr2011- Team” 8/9/2010*** [email protected] “Sailors Makes National Baseball Team” ************************************* 8/9/2010 *** “Marston is Comfortable on Either Dia- mond” Columbia Daily Tribune *** “Local Athlete Selected for US National Team” Gaston Gazette *** “Women Swinging for Baseball Gold” East Carolina News Observer, *** “For Boyertown Girl, A full Summer on the Diamond” Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/5/2010***

“Women’s Baseball World Cup sus- pended.” 8/14/2010*** Mark your calendars for the 2011 8/8/2010 Columbus TV “Female Fo- Baseball Academy—July 17-22 in cus” on new women’s baseball league *** Hinsdale, MA. Open to girls aged 9-17.

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