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Baseball For All has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including ESPN, CBS, NPR, New York Times, and Yahoo Sports. Here’s the latest word on all things girls baseball and how we’re working to grow the game across the country.
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Breaking the Grass Ceiling: More Women Are Playing College Baseball Than Ever Before | Sports Illustrated
A record six women suited up for teams at various collegiate levels this season, with more on the way, and a movement to make women’s baseball a college sport is gaining momentum. — After playing baseball for two seasons on the JV team at North County High School in Glen Burnie, Md., Skylar Kaplan was…
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Baseball options for girls, women expanding | MLB.com
Skylar Kaplan was 13 years old when she made her way from the outfield to the mound at Cooperstown Dreams Park. She had already pitched four innings to start the game, but with the game on the line, and a diminishing lead, Kaplan’s arm was needed to close it out. The youth tournament weekend in…
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USA Baseball Welcomes Baseball For All to its Membership | USA Baseball
USA Baseball today announced Baseball For All has joined the organization as its newest General Member. Baseball For All is a non-profit organization focused on building gender equity in baseball by providing girls across America opportunities to play, coach, and lead. Prospective USA Baseball members are presented to the Board of Directors before being carefully…
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Justine Siegal, first woman to coach for an MLB team, is still breaking barriers for girls in baseball | ESPN
Before she became the first woman on the coaching staff of a professional men’s baseball team (in 2009, with the Brockton Rox), the first woman to throw batting practice to an MLB team (the Indians, in 2011) or the first woman to coach for an MLB team (with the Oakland A’s instructional league in Arizona…
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BASEBALL FOR ALL HOSTS FIRST-EVER WOMEN’S COLLEGE INVITATIONAL | Just Women’s Sports
The first all-women’s college baseball invitational is set to take place this weekend. The Women’s College Baseball Invitational, hosted by Baseball For All at Centenary University in New Jersey, will take place over two days. The event is focused on the development of women and girls who are interested in playing college baseball. “Women have been playing…
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Baseball For All nationals ‘pure fun’ for girls | MLB.com
Girls shouldn’t play baseball. At least, that’s what Justine Siegal’s baseball coach told her when she was 13 years old. Siegal disagreed. In fact, that moment motivated her to make her mark on the sport. Since then, Siegal has made history. She became the first woman to coach in a Major League organization with the A’s…
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History in the Making: Women’s College Baseball Movement Continues to Make Strides | Sports Illustrated
Eight women are slated to play collegiate baseball in 2022, much in thanks to the efforts of Baseball For All, which held the first-ever Women’s College Baseball Invitational this summer. — The women’s baseball movement has made huge strides over the last few years, with history already set to be made in March 2022, when…
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Baseball For All’s message to women and girls: You don’t have to stop playing the game you love | Deadspin
The future of Our National Pastime is changing, and it’s not just for the boys anymore. — The 29 young women who gathered on the pristine green turf of the Centenary University baseball field in mid-August for Baseball For All’s first-ever scouting combine for women — a group looking to continue their baseball careers into college…
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Young women are setting their sights on playing college baseball, and making inroads | The Athletic
As a rising college senior, Beth Greenwood’s baseball career has been marked by both trailblazing successes and countless defeats. “Baseball is a game of failure,” she says. Greenwood, 21, made history earlier this year when, according to the school, she became the first American woman to catch in NCAA baseball history as a member of…
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Growing number of women joining college baseball | CBS This Morning
Baseball For All is a nonprofit that pushes for equity in baseball. Alexia Jorge from New Jersey is one of the young ball players making history this year. Meg Oliver reports.
