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7 months

THIS close…

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@netflix “You kind of broke the rules your whole life.” “Yes, I have. That’s why I’m happy.” Respect for @britnidlc , who told this story two years ago.

The Hidden Queer History Behind "A League of Their Own"

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

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@postmodern_mum I don't know which of YOUR sex parts gets in the way, but none of mine does. If you're married, isolating a partner from friends, regardless of gender, is abusive. Like Bette Midler sings, You Gotta Have Friends!

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@ByGollyMolly12 I hope as you deplaned, that you said, "I didn't get your name?" And when he answered, that you said, "It was so nice chatting with you, _____. My name's Molly. Molly Seidel." Then gave him a brilliant smile, turned around, and walked away.

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@GeoRebekah Mississippi, where the cops are so corrupt they invent reasons to throw the poorest and most vulnerable of its citizens into the hell holes they call county jails just so they can steal whatever cash and valuables they find in the property they confiscate during bogus arrests

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@RSBNetwork @realDonaldTrump While Giuliani and saps are at the landscaping company whining about ballot fraud, THIS is happening:

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@CBSLA So one person is dead and two injured, over a stolen motorcycle. What policy makes it acceptable for police to "track" a suspect hurtling along city streets at a high rate of speed, knowing the risk to innocent civilians?

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@postmodern_mum So, in your need to impose your baggage on the rest of womanhood, you say "Women exist, you know," as if that were some sort of snappy comeback. I do know. I also know that cutting out half the population from my circle of friends because of your insecurities is terrible advice.

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People are still dying of covid. We're closing in on one million deaths since 2020, and people are still dying. Lots of survivors are dealing with long covid symptoms that have vastly altered their quality of life. Please remain circumspect and thoughtful of your fellow humans!

FacesOfCOVID

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THOMAS CANTRELL, 59, of DeKalb, Illinois, died of COVID on March 2, 2022. "He loved his pet dogs and was a devoted grandfather. He will be dearly missed by his loving family."

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@votevets Thank you Vote Vets for showing us Lt. Colonel Kemter's grace under prejudice. The story of the Charleston reburial and parade for the Union dead needs to be told, not hidden away and forgotten, and our Black ancestors held in reverence and gratitude.

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@EnswellJones Someone MUST get George Clooney’s recollection of this encounter and his take on it now, fourteen years later, after he’s been brought up to speed about this crazy backstory.

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@AndyMorales8 @kurteichenwald Andy, thank you for your comment, which sent me down a rabbit hole I was glad to plummet into. I learned the banjo was "invented" by African griots, tribal storytellers, and that some White dude in Baltimore took credit for its creation when enslaved Black men brought it to him

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@darenw @alysonfooter @MLB All those wide open spaces between the lines are where something called “minor league baseball” used to thrive and instill a love of the game in families who might not otherwise have ever seen a professional baseball game. #robmanfredhatesbaseball

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@UncleNachoDog @ChrisDJackson So, Austin, you think endlessly re-litigating what happened twenty-two years ago is "more important" than the president actually doing his job?

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Richard Rose was a US army vet who loved NASCAR and his two cats. He died from covid-19 on July 4th and is now being dragged all over the internet for his refusal to wear a mask. The urge to mock is strong, but so should be the impulse to be kind. MASK UP!

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@philroyceman @tiredtaurus Instead, he's got a penis with balls. Adorable!

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@britnidlc "No offence" - guy's probably a Brit, headquartered in Annoy-les-Dames.

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7 years

History! Emma Charlesworth is the 2nd woman hired in consecutive years to umpire pro ball. She'll be in the Gulf Coast League this summer.

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2 years

@equalityAlec "IBM and the Holocaust" isn't available in audio book form yet, but I just downloaded "Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Subverted the Alternatives," another of @EdwinBlackBook 's disturbing, intensively researched true crime books

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6 years

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played its first game 75 years ago next week. Ruth Richard's death marks a sad day as the number of still-living @AAGPBL members dwindle, but we celebrate those who remain among us with love and respect for the ones who don't.

AAGPBL Official

@AAGPBL

6 years

We are sad to report that Ruth "Richie" Richard has passed away. She was 89 years old. Richie was a 6x All-Star (1949-54) with the #RockfordPeaches . Please keep her family and friends in your thoughts and prayers at this time. (Photo: Mike Morsch - Ambler Gazette)

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@CaddyshackLou @agreenphotog Why should she have tried to save his face for him? The guy obviously sprang this on her, in a public forum, and she wanted no part of it, or him. Why should she be "subtle" about her reply when he was grossly unsubtle about popping the question in front of hundreds of strangers?

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"You're not a lesbian, why are you so invested in the renewal of 'A League of Their Own?'" I get that A LOT O (Because it's not just one of the best shows about anything ever, it's a prayer, a religion, a leap of faith, an education, a loving homage to Penny Marshall's vision.)

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Happy Birthday Tom Seaver, I'll never forget our moment of intimacy

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@meakoopa @shirhallelujah You just won the internet of 1517.

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"A League of Their Own" alludes to the untold history of Black women playing baseball on factory league teams during the 1940s and '50s, and how women like illustrator Jackie Ormes haven't gotten the recognition or appreciation they deserve. Time to change that.

Will Graham

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2 years

Of course, so much of the soul of Clance comes from the mind of @gbemi_ikumelo and our other writers. But as with all part of the show, we were inspired by real history and I thought it might be fun to introduce you to Jackie! #ALeagueOfTheirOwn

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So this thing happened last night... Yours Truly became the third woman inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame after Mickey Watts and Shannon Dalton Forde. Umpires are not used to accolades and adoration, so I'll just say how grateful and truly fortunate I am.

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Triple AAA umpire Jen Pawol conferring with her partners at home plate before the Durham Bulls game tonight in North Carolina. Keeping my fingers crossed she gets promoted to "mlb vacation umpire" status before I'm no longer around to witness it! She is ready RIGHT NOW.

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At the 99th annual @NYBBWAA dinner in New York with longtime pal Moe Resner, whom everybody here at the Hilton (Terry Franconia, Terry Collins, Bobby Valentine, @pcaldera ) seems to know. We were THIS close to Shohei Ohtani… This is Moe’s 55th year attending the dinner!

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Maybelle on Rachel Ray this morning: “A story almost a hundred years in the making.”

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1 year

@UncleNachoDog @ChrisDJackson I answered your question with a question, which IS my answer. You answered my question with an evasion.

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@TeamMegatronMLB @isabellarileyus @FreshandFitPod And not one of those 40+ bitter lonely man-hating women would go near you with a ten foot pole, Megatron. Sulking, much?

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Mine is just another voice in the swell of passionate support for "A League of Their Own," but combined with everyone else's, it's a joyful noise we all hope Amazon hears. C'mon, Amazon, what are you waiting for? RENEW ALOTO PLEASE #RenewALOTO @AmazonStudios @SPTV @LeagueOnPrime

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@MrsAMartini "I don't want any woman to have an abortion." THIS, not science, not medical necessity, not compassion, not fear or love of the lord, is what drives Paul Brown and his ilk to declare that women must bend to their will. It's just WHAT THEY WANT, not what makes any sense.

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@amyjccuddy The Men in Blue: Conversations With Umpires, by Larry Gerlach Mom saw me reading it in 1981 and decided it meant that I, a 28-year-old former debutante clinging to the vestiges of a brief career as an obscure singer/songwriter, wanted to BE an umpire. 42 years later, I still am!

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@JordysOutlook @TheBigE_21 Instead of trying to "talk him into" something, ask him what HE wants. If you nurture & support his dreams, even if they differ from the ones you have for him, he will come to love what you love on his own. You can't make him love something he doesn't - let him love what he does.

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@Marisa_Ingemi Dock Ellis He was so much more than the guy who pitched a no-hitter on acid. He was a civil rights leader among ballplayers, a man who stood up for not only HIS rights, but others' too, and willingly took the heat for his outspokenness. Legend!

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@MetroUK Do women find men who find us unattractive when we swear unattractive? Yes. Yes, we do.

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@megancarter14 @eric_clapp It's one setback in a long journey, Megan. Be kind to yourself, you're human and vulnerable, but probably stronger than you know too. As long as you're still alive, there's hope for a sober and more beautiful tomorrow.

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@BSmile He got under Berra's tag. Good call by plate umpire Bill Summers, who's in prime position to see the play unfold. Berra, of course, is looking mostly at where he tags Robinson, while Summers is looking at the entire play and can see Robinson's foot on the plate as Berra tags him.

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An app founded by civil rights lawyers whom you can call via voice activation if you get pulled over by law enforcement so the interaction is recorded sounds like a useful tool for women like me who do a lot of driving.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

2 years

Please check out @TurnSignl , an app founded by Black civil rights lawyers. It lets you to call a lawyer asap through voice activation when police pull you over. The lawyer manages & records the entire convo w/police & works to get you home safe. See here:

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News that a women's baseball league in Canada will be starting up this summer with a lot of help and leadership from the Halifax Monarchs men's team is making me a little verklempt.

Female baseball players get a league of their own in Nova Scotia, games start in June | CBC News

For the first time in Nova Scotia sports history, an all-women baseball league has been formed.

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5 years

Just watched “A League of Their Own” for the gazillionth time after spending the past week at Red Sox camp with former Rockford Peach Shirley “Hustle” Burkovich. I never tire of hearing her say, “Dottie, having you here is good luck!” in the final scene.

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The Future of Umpiring, as seen at 2021 Nationals

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5 years

@OpDeathEaters A plethora of Lords & Ladies, Barons & Baronesses on this list; also, Alec Baldwin, Mike Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Edgar Bronfman, Jimmy Buffett, Candice Bushnell, Naomi Campbell - and that's not even getting to the Ds. "But I had no idea!" they will say. "Not even an inkling."

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4 years

NBA: 7 women referees NFL: 2 women referees NHL: 0 women referees, 4 getting close MLB: 0 women umpires, 4 in the low minors It will be at least 5 years before a woman umpires an MLB game. The reason? Other leagues have specific programs to draw women to officiating. MLB? Nada

Officials101

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Simone Jelks has been promoted to a full-time #NBA #Referee , becoming the 7th female full-time ref in league history. She is one of 5 women on the NBA's current lineup of officials. Jelks worked 16 games as a non-staff official last season. RT @FOS .

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The 1992 Penny Marshall film created a movement that carved a path to the diamond for an entire generation of girls, and last years's amazon series took up the dual stories of racism and sexual identity the film only touched on. Together, they've changed the world for the better.

Peaches75

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1 year

Happy birthday, A League of Their Own! This show has brought in a whole new generation of fans, honorably portrayed history as authentically as possible, and literally saved some lives along the way. Thank you, @LeagueOnPrime ! #OneYearofLeague #ALOTO #ToTheFive

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A tweet cannot contain all the love and sorrow I feel at the death of @AAGPBL player Shirley Burkovich. I’ll just say that today, there’s crying all over baseball for our beloved, sweet, kind, modest, gentle Shirley. Having her here was our good luck ❤️⚾️💔

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@DrGJackBrown Ooh yeah, a bit of competitive gameswomanship going on there. Ivanka ignores Melania's smile meant to charm, walks to her daddy's side where they paw each other while Melania has a nanosecond of complete loss of composure about it but somehow manages to get ahold of herself.

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@msfour @rachelmillman "She gave him a sound thrashing... using her fists in scientific fashion." Reportage doesn't get much better than that.

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@NorcalDot @MikeSington Christ, Red Dot, were you paying attention at all during junior high school history?

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7 years

@DineshDSouza @washingtonpost You were "lukewarm" on the judge, but now because of "the smear," "we must elect him"? Protect the patriarchy at all costs! Because, umm, teenage girls, who could resist? So nubile, so not credible... @DineshDSouza , making the world safe for predators, one creep at a time.

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@BryanforHD2 "The bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children..." NO IT WON'T. In all of history since the beginning of time, no law has ever stopped any woman who wanted one from getting an abortion. And no pea-brained misogynist ever will either.

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@mayawiley I see so many sweet cats who have been loved so deeply being written about and memorialized here on twitter lately. Maybe I just notice them more because I lost my own beloved little Prince a month ago. Your Maxie will etch grief into your heart, but the grief is worth the love.

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The Trailblazers umpiring crew is ready for action at the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Vero Beach, Florida Thanks to ⁦ @GretaLanghenry ⁩ for this awesome video!

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@RalphNorman Yes, women who have been raped and then re-raped by going public about our traumas definitely need to "lighten up," Ralph. And please, by all means, tell us to "smile" while we do it.

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I cannot get enough of seeing Maybelle Blair throw a strike, belt high on the inside corner, to Liz Benn before yesterday's Mets game. Check out @elizabenn doing a little nifty pitch-framing too

MLB

@MLB

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Before today’s game, the @Mets honored All-American Girls Professional Baseball League legend Maybelle Blair with the Amazin’ Mets Foundation Legacy Award. ❤️

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The @Athletics Oakland As are leading the way in hiring women on and off the diamond. Justine Siegal was their first female on-field acquisition when she coached during the 2015 Arizona Fall League season; now there's Haley Alvarez, Scouting Coordinator.

Athletics hire their first female scouting coordinator

The Athletics are taking the lead in front office diversity by hiring their first female scouting coordinator.

sports.yahoo.com

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@Marisa_Ingemi I don't give him a pass for multiple episodes of violence inflicted on women either, but I DO give him credit for addressing the underlying addiction issues that drove his behavior. He sincerely turned his life around after his playing career ended.

How Dock Ellis, Player Who Pitched a No-Hitter on LSD, Is Misremembered

Instead of the infamous game for the Pirates, the pitcher should be remembered as an outspoken activist and advocate for sobriety.

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@DanWuori This look by the one pulling the wagon. A look of such sweetness and rapture at his brothers' enjoyment of the game they're playing, so innocent, protective, and loving.

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@tokyoAGI @WallStreetSilv Maybe the good part of this coming depression is that women will finally understand that they don't need a partner to flourish economically or emotionally. The "correct economic unit" is ONE, not two or ten.

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@Hromadske Respect for Victoria Marinova. May her work be continued by other brave, intrepid journalists. We need them now more than ever.

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@AfricanArchives "...she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with full military honors in 1915." Buried with full military honors in an UNMARKED GRAVE? How is that even possible? Her grave should at least be marked with a headstone. How can this be made to happen?

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Reframing the Baseball Picture Trust me, 'til you've heard the happy shouts of nearly three hundred girls hitting, throwing, and catching the baseball, some with other girls for the first time, ponytails and braids shining in the sun, you haven't lived. (And 6 women umps too!)

Baseball For All

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Picture this: having so many girls in baseball that they hardly fit into one frame—and trust us, these 280 girls? They're just the beginning. #growthegame #BFANationals #unstoppable

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You don't have to be a @Jeopardy freak like me to find this tale of one five-time champion's vanished episodes fascinating. Thanks to @craigcalcaterra for bringing the strange story of intrigue and scandal on the Jeopardy! set to his readers' attention

The Curious Case of the Lost ‘Jeopardy!’ Episodes and the Mysterious Champion at Their Center

In 1986, Barbara Lowe Vollick won five games of ‘Jeopardy!’ in a row. Her episodes were then taken out of circulation. What followed was a nearly 40-year hunt for the missing tapes—and a quest to...

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@RedWave_Press @EdKrassen @charliekirk11 "The facts are..." What "facts"? Totally bogus claim. Empirical evidence culled from MILLIONS of women who have happily used the pill says otherwise. Why would you expose your 16-year-old daughter to the risk of pregnancy? THAT'S what's "linked to depression and anxiety."

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@FaithHill @cmclymer The Dixie Chicks took a stand for which they were condemned, punished, and shunned by the country music community, but they stayed true to themselves and fought their way back to success despite the haters. Women are leading the way by inspiring and challenging us to be better!

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@Jeopardamy You're beautiful. The light that radiates from you shines on all of us, illuminating the dark recesses, but lighting up the world.

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@SHELLYJACOBS @MattWallace888 @TaraBull808 The one is playing lefthanded guitar, like Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney, but unlike Hendrix who played upside down, she's restrung her instrument with the low E string on the top the neck the same as if she were playing righthanded. Their voices are ethereally beautiful 👼

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@amyalkon @clairlemon Think about if the fireperson coming to rescue you felt the same way about you, Amy.

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Forty years ago, I was a raw recruit at the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School and Brian Gorman was my classmate. Tonight I’m witnessing the end of his long and honorable major league career - well done, Brian, well done.

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Jen Pawol working the plate at the major league Mets. Yours Truly calling 'em on the back field with the minor leaguers. Eight more women starting their pro umpiring careers this summer. Women, women everywhere in uniform on the field - and the sky hasn't fallen? Shocking!

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@BostonDotCom It's not even the politics thing as much as it is the sex predator-enabling-and-defending thing.

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@cvspharmacy Truth in advertising

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This statue outside the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown was modeled after Dorothy "Mickey" Maguire Chapman, who got her nickname & catching style from the great Mickey Cochrane. She was an original @AAGPBL er for 7 seasons and later became a respected horsewoman. Well-played, Mickey!

SABR Landmarks Committee

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To celebrate #International_Womens_Day show us your favorite baseball landmark honoring women in the game!

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This is HUGE. The APBPA, one of the oldest, most venerable baseball assistance organizations in the country, has just welcomed every living @AAGPBL player, and posthumously, Toni Stone, Connie Morgan, and Mamie Johnson into its fold as new members.

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I could stare at this all day

Jeff Suntala

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It’s opening day! To celebrate, here’s a look back at ballparks past and present. All prints available at Longer video at

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In my Happy Place The @sabr 51 conference at the fabled Palmer Hotel in Chicago with friends, fellow baseball geeks, and player icons like Maybelle Blair and Ozzie Guillen speaking on panels. I love soaking up the history!

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Finally, the future is about to become the present.

Female umpire Jen Pawol to work home plate in Triple-A championship

The Triple-A National Championship game is a way for fans to see future stars on the mound and at the plate. But it’s also a chance to see those behind the plate before they reach The Show. Jen...

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See, that's the thing - you don't have to be gay or a baseball fan or anything else except what you authentically are to love this show for what it authentically is: a depiction of lives unlike other lives we've seen onscreen, but still the same in so many ways. WE ARE ALL FRUITS

HRC 🥥🌴

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“Seeing characters that are living lives completely unlike our own allows us to more fully understand others' experiences… It is one of the most significant tools we have in our fight toward progress.” - Abbi Jacobson of @LeagueOnPrime #HRCNationalDinner

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@_SJPeace_ A chilling interview with survivor Roy Davis, who at the time of filming was an inmate at Cummins Unit in Gould, Arkansas:

Locked In & Burned

Interview with Cummins Prison inmate Roy Davis, survivor of 1959 dormitory fire at the Negro Boys Training School in Wrightsville, Arkansas. The dorm was loc...

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@1followernodad @RobertFoster4MS Succinct and to the point.

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@BeschlossDC “Poached Kennebec Salmon Steak à la Morton Downey” “Boneless stuffed Cornish Hen à la Walter Winchell” That’s Morton on the right and what looks like Orson Welles in profile at the table on the left. The Stork Club really was a cramped, unappealing little place, wasn’t it?

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@Jimfrombaseball And yet he was one of the nicest, most thoughtful people you could ever hope to meet. A true competitor on the diamond, but off it, a sage. it wasn't his "meanness" that made him a badass on the bump, it was his intelligence and focus. Also, that he was scary as hell out there!

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

3 years

After a one-year hiatus, the Red Sox women’s fantasy camp is back on, better than ever and extra safety-conscious. @AAGPBL -ers Maybelle Blair, Shirley Burkovich, and Mary Moore are here; Luis Tiant is coaching; and six women are umpiring. Is this heaven?

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

4 years

Look who shares today's cover of the @latimes ' sports section with Drew Brees and Tom Brady! Maybelle Blair, forever a Peoria Redwing, @AAGPBL pitcher, guiding light for baseball-loving girls & women everywhere, lifetime @IWBC4Me board member.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

1 year

@CodifyBaseball Umpiring 1.01: any batter/runner not in the running lane - and this batter/runner clearly does NOT have both feet within the running lane - who interferes with the catcher's throw to the first baseman is out, the ball is dead, and any runners who advanced on the play must return.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

1 year

@Mets From someone who is neither gay nor trans, THANK YOU METS Proud to be a fan for 45 years, and many more now

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

1 year

He was the nicest, cheeriest person

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

11 months

We should all be expert-defiers like Flaco. What I love most about his tale of intrepidity and adeptness at adapting is that he's still there in Central Park, still a New Yorker, proud author of his own biography now.

Above_96th

@Above96th

11 months

🎉🎉🎉This morning, Flaco begins his ninth month of freedom after 13 years in a small enclosure in the Central Park Zoo. He's had to teach himself to fly, hunt, and ward off hawks and jays--defying the experts who said he wouldn't survive. And he has done it in style!❤️🦉❤️

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

2 years

Like Kelsie, I was the only woman on the field in the Atlantic League when I umpired there 1998-2001; as of last night, I'm no longer "the last." Also like her, I had great support from my partners, and most of the players and managers too (although I could be wrong about that🤔)

Atlantic League

@AtlanticLg

2 years

Kelsie Whitmore continues to make history. She becomes the first female to pitch in an Atlantic League game.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

2 years

@nut_history @Yankees Okay, twitter, I have the story from the source. I checked with former Yankees PR guru and multi-award-winning author Marty Appel, and he told me this was a practical joke intended to shock Bob Fishel - NOT a documentation of The Mick's sexual hijinks. It's a joke, people. Ha ha.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

7 years

@votevets Love it when politically connected white men lump booze & movies in with actual living, breathing, women as if we're all some sort of accessible evil whose price must be rendered out of reach so we don't continue to corrupt & impoverish all the poor saps who just can't resist us.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

2 years

Underway at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton, Ca: the first Women’s College Club Baseball Championship, played, umpired, coached, and announced by women. History in the making! With practice, these teams will become college baseball powerhouses; stay tuned.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

5 years

@etherealgii CVS wants our money, but it doesn't care about our health.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

2 years

I was a teenager and Richard Belzer was a struggling comic living in a Westport, Connecticut walk-up when he stole my heart away from an abusive boyfriend, sparing me untold misery. He remained a loving, caring friend for the rest of his life. Bon voyage, mon cheri.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

3 years

A salute to my father, Larry Barber. He loved to fly, and he served with honor in the newly created Air Force during the Korean Conflict. There's no gravesite or marker I can decorate with a flag today - he vanished at sea when I was 6 years old - so this is my tribute to him.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

2 years

@PabloAdopt @leftofcentermi Or "woman" - really! Not even in the 19th amendment granting us the right to vote. And definitely not "abortion." There's no mention of it anywhere, nor of forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. Yet one omission is overlooked while the other is codified into law.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

6 years

@realDonaldTrump When you're reduced to using a Rush Limbaugh quote as your best defense, it might be time to start practicing your perp walk.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

1 year

@Jerry__Grey @ReallyAmerican1 He was in the US House of Representatives, serving as a congressman representing Florida's 6th congressional district. That's not "in office"? There are rules governing what congresspeople can and cannot do while "in office," Jerry, just as there are for governors and presidents.

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Perry Barber

@perrybarber

4 years

@Bodegacats_ @knoooooope Cats showing humans how it’s done

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