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July 15 2001: I Got Called Up Today (!)

Sunday, July 15, 2001

I picked the wrong morning to sleep through my alarm. The reason I slept through it today is because after corwin got into bed, at around 6 AM, he snored. Elbowing him and rolling him over didn’t solve the problem, so I moved to the bed in the guest room for the duration of the […]

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July 7 2001: Sky’s The Limit

Saturday, July 7, 2001

There are any number of pleasures unique to summer for those of us in the northeast–fresh corn bought from a roadside stand and eaten uncooked, sweet and messy in the car, searching for shells on an Atlantic beach with bubbly seawater seeping warm through our toes, nighttime concerts in the public square, block parties, yard […]

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June 9 2001: Have Glove, Will Travel

Saturday, June 9, 2001

I just realized something that makes me very happy. My arm doesn’t hurt. Over the past three weeks I’ve spent a grand total of 14 out of the last seventeen days on the road, which (as my ear infection and thrown-out back can attest) can be tough on a body. Lucky for me, two of […]

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May 20 2001: Another Baseball Day

Sunday, May 20, 2001

So I have what is probably one of the stupidest baseball-related injuries one can get. This whole week has been cold and rainy and having us wonder if summer is ever really going to arrive in New England. But Saturday was sunny and warm, and I got together with some friends who have been bitten […]

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April 10 2001: Stick With It – Women’s Baseball In New England

Tuesday, April 10, 2001

Is there a future for me at second base? Or maybe in the outfield, on the bench? It’s all wide open right now. I’ve now spent a total of four hours in the company of the New England Women’s Baseball League, and already I know twice as much about the mechanics of baseball as I […]

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November 14 2000 : Book Review of Women At Play, by Barbara Gregorich

Tuesday, November 14, 2000

Did you know that since the beginning of any kind of organized baseball in America, there has been organized women’s baseball? That is, until the 1952, when minor league teams were outright banned from drafting female players–a ban that has never been rescinded. In 1974 girls were allowed into Little League, but since the fifties, […]

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November 11 2000: Offseason Conditioning

Saturday, November 11, 2000

Derek Jeter may still be hobnobbing around the Big Apple’s social scene with Miss Universe on his arm, but I’ve decided not to wait to start my offseason conditioning program. I’ve only been at it a week, but I’m feeling pretty good about it. And I didn’t even have to move to Tampa to do […]

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Mar 23 2000: Does Every Fan Secretly Wish…?

Thursday, March 23, 2000

So I learned about an amazing thing today. Women’s Major League Baseball. Right here in New England there’s the WNEBL, Women’s New England Baseball League, and according to American Women’s Baseball League there are women’s leagues/teams in fourteen states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, […]

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