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2021 BFA Junior Captains Projects
In 2021, we welcomed a brand new team of BFA Junior Captains: 15 middle school and junior-high aged girls in baseball committed to growing the game in their own communities. This team represented 10 states and six Baseball For All teams, including the Boston Slammers, Chicago Scouts, DC Force, East Bay Oaks, Florida Bolts, Los…
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2021 BFA Captains Projects
In 2021, our BFA Captains—a handpicked leadership team of 15 high school girls in baseball—spent 8 months concepting, planning, and executing independent projects to make an impact on girls within their own community. This group spent their time mentoring their own Junior Captains while tapping into their own talents and passions to motivate, inspire, and…
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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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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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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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Justine Siegal and Baseball For All Are Making America’s Pastime Available to Everyone | En Fuego Now
Justine Siegal continues to work to make sure that more girls get to play baseball and have the same opportunities on the diamond. — For thousands of girls in this country, heading to the park with a bat and glove is met with discouragement. America, your national pastime has an inclusivity problem. Thankfully, Baseball for All is…
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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…
