And there I sat. The Saints were in first place, contending for the Eastern Division again, and I was seeing little playing time. June 26, 1997. And then it was over. When I showed up for practice, Marty Scott called me into his office.
Ila Jane Borders, despite formidable obstacles, became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men ...
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Breaking into Baseball is augmented by twenty-four illustrations and a foreword from Ila Borders, the first woman to play more than three seasons of men’s professional baseball.
Sixty-four of these avid fans, historians, statisticians, and game enthusiasts recorded their experiences for this book.
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women—more so than any other spectator...