Baseball:
That's right, women playing baseball! You don't have to
quit playing baseball after Farm League or Little
League.
Web Sites
New England Baseball
League
Did you know that if you are a
woman and live in New England, you could play
professional baseball? Find out more at:
http://www.newbl.org/
American Women's Baseball
League
Women from the NEWBL and other
leagues will be at the 2001 Women's All Star Baseball
Tournament being held in Toronto, Canada June 28 to July
8. Don't miss it!! Check out either site for more
information on the teams.
http://www.womenplayingbaseball.com/index.htm
http://www.betweeninnings.net/
Baseball
Andrea
Neal
She is also one of them
well-known women players. She first started playing
T-ball at the age of five. During the next four years she
played on the T-ball Rep. teams and won many
championships including the world T-ball Crown! Next came
Little league for the next four years. When she was 12
she was the catcher for the High Park Braves. In October
1998 she went with Toronto Playgrounds to Tucscon Az. In
the1999 season she played for the Agincourt A's. They won
all of their tournaments and went on to a championship!
This past summer she was a member of Team
Ontario.
Julie
Croteau
Julie is one of the well known
women baseball players playing for the SilverBullets, an
all women's professional baseball team. . She was born on
12/4/70 in Berkeley, CA. She attended Osborn Park High
School in 1988. Then, when she was finished high school,
she attedded St. Mary's College in Maryland. She played
first base and was player number nine. To learn more
about Julie, go to this web site:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~j-yen/SilverBullets/Players/Croteau.html
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A LEAGUE OF THEIR
OWN
During World War II P.K. Wrigley
received word from President Franklin .D. Roosevelt that
in 1943 Major League Baseball might be suspended due to
the drafting of men to war. Wrigley joined forces with
Branch Rickey and several other small town entrepreneurs
to create
THE FIRST WOMEN'S BASEBALL
TEAM!!!
To find out more go to:
http://members.aol.com/LegendLady/private/llobcovr.htm
Softball
Carolina's Monica Armendarez
Wins
1999 WPSL Home Run
Crown
Carolina Diamond's third baseman
Monica Armendarez won her second Home Run Championship
after she shattered the single-season record of 10 home
runs.
For more info. on this site
go to http://www.prosoftball.com/
Did You
Know??
World Book. 2000 ed.
- Little League baseball teams compete in
more than 75 countries.
- Baseball games between college teams have
been played since the Civil War.
- A baseball must be between 9 and 9 1/4
inches in circumference.
- A baseball must not weigh less than 5
ounces but not any more than 5 1/4 ounces.
- Bats are limited to a maximum of 2 3/4
inches in diameter.
- Bats are limited to a length of 42
inches, but may be any weight.
- The first Little League was started in
1939 with 3 teams.
- In 1974, girls started playing on Little
League teams.
- The week beginning the second Monday in
June is observed as National Little League
Baseball Week.
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