Women’s Baseball - The Inside Pitch
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2022 International Women’s Day:
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against gender bias, and take action for equality. The theme for 2022 International Women's Day (IWD) is #BreakTheBias.
In baseball, many women have had to break bias at some point in their baseball journey, whether it has been as a player, an umpire, coach, scorer, in the media or management positions.
On 2022 International Women's Day, I have chosen to feature and celebrate three women in baseball in Victoria, Australia who are leading by example on and off the field.
Jennie Moloney is changing the game off the field from the scorer’s box. A life member and member of the team of the century at the Williamstown Baseball Club, Jennie began her scoring career at her very first game of baseball in 1976. Jennie has since scored at three Olympic Games, is currently one of just five members of the WBSC Scoring Commission, was named the 2019 WBSC Scorer of the Year, and in 2021 was appointed to the Baseball Scoring Director for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
When Janine Thompson saw no women on a list of registered umpires in Melbourne in 2006, she thought would do something about it by umpiring herself. 15 years later, Janine is the only woman currently umpiring in the Baseball Victoria Victorian Summer Baseball League, has umpired countless Women’s National Championships, and has also umpired in Hong Kong and the USA. She was part of an all-women’s umpiring crew at the Baseball Australia Showcase in 2021 which she will do again in 2022.
Abbey McLellan’s journey in baseball has been one of commitment and persistence. Bursting onto the scene as a 11yo playing in Footscray Baseball Club’s Under 16 team, the hard hitting catcher’s career was almost derailed at just 21 years of age after a knee reconstruction ended her 2016 World Cup campaign. However, in a story of never letting go of your dreams, Abbey came back to represent her country at the 2018 World Cup and is now a leader of the Victorian Women’s Baseball team.
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Stacey Saggus - 2012 - One World Cup Wonders
Kathy Welsh - 2010 - Part 2 - One World Cup Wonders
Kathy Welsh - 2010 - Part 1 - One World Cup Wonders
Bec Crosby - 2008 - One World Cup Wonders
Terina Stokes - 2006 - One World Cup Wonders
Kelly Gunn - 2004 - One World Cup Wonders
Jason Pospishil - Australian Emeralds Manager
Grant Weir - Victorian Women’s Baseball Team 25th Anniversary
#AWBC2022 WA v NSW, Kreppold, Fox, Neads, Lillywhite and McCann remember Jacinda Barclay & preview gold medal game
#AWBC2022 NSW v QLD - Tammy & Kim McMillan + Hannah Marshall and Jordan Richardson
#AWBC2022 Baseball WA walk it off again - Kaila Borgomastro + Natalie House (nee Rawlings).
#AWBC2022 South Australia’s Bianca Smith drops in for a chat from Adelaide
#AWBC2022 2022 Queensland and former Victorian rep Amanda Torrington
#AWBC2022 Victoria V NSW battle recap with Tahnee Lovering, Brooke Shiels, Morgan Doty & Ticara Geldenhuis
#AWBC2022 Victorian opening day double header recap - Kathy Welsh & Bronwyn Gell
S02 E07 - Tanith Harley - History Of Australian Women’s Baseball including 1934 All-Australian Women’s Baseball Interstate Series
S02 E06 - Karina Connors (nee Sexton) - Australia
S02 E05 - Janine Thompson - Umpire - Australia - International Women’s Day 2022
S02 E04 - Abbey McLellan - Player - Australia - International Women’s Day 2022
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