‘Girls Belong in Baseball’: Minnesota Twins-Sponsored 14U Team Heads to Nationals - Austin Daily Herald

‘Girls belong in baseball’: Minnesota Twins-sponsored 14U team heads to nationals - Austin Daily Herald

By Sam Stroozas While Emma Charlesworth-Seiler was growing up, she was “baseball obsessed.” She loved playing, but also watching games, listening on the radio, collecting baseball cards, reading the game stats in the newspaper — she couldn’t get enough. But then she entered puberty. She wasn’t encouraged to keep playing baseball. Everyone recommended switching to softball. “It wasn’t a malicious thing, but it was more so people saying, ‘we think…

‘Girls belong in baseball’: Minnesota Twins-sponsored 14U team heads to nationals

The Minnesota Twins are the first MLB team to sponsor a youth girls baseball team. Players from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota are headed to Nevada for the national tournament.

Women’s Baseball Finds a Home in Rockford

Beyer Stadium is the historical site where the Rockford Peaches of the American Girls Professional Baseball League played from 1943–1954. Today, the field hosts a variety of events, but needs renovations. Photo courtesy of the International Women’s Baseball CenterWhen most people think of women’s baseball, what comes to mind is the film A League of Their Own, the 1992 box office hit which tells an interpretative version of real-life events surro…