2017 Brawl @ the Beach Tournament information TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: Deb Littlefield c978-807-2441 SITE MANAGERS: 10U: TBA 12U: Dennis Bruce (603) 944-1824 14U: TBA 16U: TBA 18U: TBA Umpire in Chief: Matt D’Agostino 978-697-6044 RULES: Straight ASA rules with a few adjustments: 1. Straight ASA rules with modified mercy rules: 12, 10, and 8 after 3, 4, and 5 innings. 2. No new inning after 80 minutes with Drop Dead Time at 95 minutes. Exception: Final game will have no time limit. 3. Two umpires per game (excluding personal emergency). 4. In the event of rain, we will work to make a modified schedule so the tournament can be completed. 5. If the home team is winning when the run rule goes into affect, they will NOT bat in the bottom half of the inning. 6. Remember on the time limit procedure once the last out is made to complete that inning the new inning starts as soon as that out is made. 7. Double coin flip before each pool game. SEEDING CRITERIA: 1. Pool play record. 2. Head-to-Head. 3. Fewest runs allowed. 4. Runs differential (12 runs per game max). 5. Coin flip. REFUND GUIDELINES due to unavoidable circumstances: • In the event no games are played, your team will be refunded $300. • If only one game is played, your team will be refunded $200. • There will be no refund for any team that begins their second game. 2017 Brawl @ the Beach Tournament information POOLS: IMPORTANT WOMEN IN HISTORY Each pool is named after four trailblazing, fearless, brilliant American women. If just one player looks up the person her pool is named after, perhaps it will inspire her to realize the greatness that she is capable of. The pools are aptly named as follows: 10U Ruby Bridges. Only 6 years old when she became the first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the American South (New Orleans, LA). Although Ruby was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, her family relocated to New Orleans when she was 4 to seek a better standard of living in a big city. Ruby was born during the Supreme Court's decision on desegregation, so when Ruby was in kindergarten, she was chosen to take a test that would determine whether or not she could attend an all-white school. Even though it was rumored that the test was deliberately written so it would be difficult to pass, Ruby was one of six African- American children who succeeded in passing the test. Ruby's father was hesitant to allow her to attend an all-white school from fear that she would come to physical harm, and the Louisiana State Legislature placed as many roadblocks as they could in her way. Regardless, Ruby and her mother finally entered Ruby's new school accompanied by federal marshals. However, Ruby was immediately ostracized and only one teacher, Barbara Henry, would teach her. Ruby was harassed, threatened and abused, but in the end, she persevered. Sandra Day O’Connor. She became the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1990, O'Connor declared, "For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show. .As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it." And O'Connor knew her role as a Supreme Court justice had made just such a difference. "The minute I was confirmed and on the Court, states across the country started putting more women on than had ever been the case, on their supreme courts. And it made a difference in the acceptance of young women as lawyers. It opened doors for them." 2017 Brawl @ the Beach Tournament information However, O'Connor isn't hung up on how people view her contributions. In 2013, calling the thought that she's one of the most important women in U.S. history a "grandiose statement," she said, "I would like [my legacy] to be that I was the first woman to serve on the Court and I did a decent job." 12U Clara Barton. Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts. She became a teacher, worked in the U.S. Patent Office and was an independent nurse during the Civil War, seeking to help the soldiers in any way she could. At the beginning, she collected and distributed supplies for the Union Army. Not content sitting on the sidelines, Barton served as an independent nurse and first saw combat in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1862. She also cared for soldiers wounded at Antietam. Barton was nicknamed "the angel of the battlefield" for her work. Next, Barton lobbied for the creation of the American Red Cross and it was founded in 1881, with Barton serving as its first president. Susan B. Anthony. Born in 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan B. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family. They became involved in the fight to end slavery, also known as the abolitionist movement. The Anthonys' farm served as a meeting place for such famed abolitionists as Frederick Douglass. Anthony also started up petitions for women to have the right to own property and to vote. She traveled extensively, campaigning on the behalf of women. In 1856, Anthony began working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. She spent years promoting the society's cause up until the Civil War. After the Civil War, Anthony began focus more on women's rights. Anthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman's right to vote. In 1905, she met with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., to lobby for an amendment to give women the right to vote. Anthony died the following year and it wouldn't be until 14 years after Anthony's death—in 1920—that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving all adult women the right to vote, was passed. In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony's portrait on dollar coins in 1979, making her the first woman to be so honored. 14U 2017 Brawl @ the Beach Tournament information Helen Keller. An American author, political activist, and lecturer, she was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Keller proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world. She also taught that deaf people are capable of doing things that hearing people can do. One of the most famous deaf people in history, she is an idol to many deaf people in the world. Belva Ann Lockwood. She applied to the Columbian Law School in the District of Columbia. The trustees refused to admit her, fearing she would distract the male students. She and several other women were finally admitted to the new National University Law School (now the George Washington University Law School). Although she completed her coursework in May 1873, the law school refused to grant her a diploma because of her gender. Without a diploma, Lockwood could not gain admittance to the District of Columbia Bar. After a year, she wrote a letter to the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, appealing to him as president ex officio of the National University Law School. She asked him for justice, stating she had passed all her courses and deserved to be awarded a diploma.[9] In September 1873, within a week of having sent the letter, Lockwood received her diploma. She was 43 years old and became one of the first female lawyers in the United States, she became the first woman attorney to argue in front of the Supreme Court. Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Born in Brookline, MA, she was the sister of President John F. Kennedy and became the founder of the Special Olympics, she was also a key figure in the foundation of the National Institute of Child Health and Development. She was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, the (U.S.) Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1984 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, because of her work on behalf of those with intellectual disability. Amelia Earhart. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. 16U 2017 Brawl @ the Beach Tournament information Jackie Cochran. The founder and director of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), she was also the first woman to break the sound barrier, the first woman to fly a jet across the ocean, and the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic. Cochran still holds more international speed, distance, and altitude records than any other pilot, male or female. Sally Ride. She was an American physicist and astronaut, joined NASA in 1978, and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after two USSR cosmonauts. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32 and she flew twice on the Orbiter Challenger.