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Hal Pomeranz @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
· 1mo ago
Painting a grim picture of the #WPBL’s internal and external communications. As a hard-core fan of the league I have personally found this frustrating, but they’re also jerking around prospective players and the few media outlets wanting to cover the nascent league. Also the last-minute ESPN media deal sabotaged a number of sports bars that had scheduled watch parties. I hope the league can do better next season. https://defector.com/the-new-womens-pro-baseball-league-offers-hope-and-frustrations
The New Women's Pro Baseball League Offers Hope—And Frustrations | Defector
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The New Women's Pro Baseball League Offers Hope—And Frustrations | Defector

For most women who play baseball in the United States, playing America’s pastime in a professional league has been little more than a dream. Yet for a select group of women, that dream is becoming a reality.  The Women’s Pro Baseball League began its inaugural season on Aug. 1, with the four-team league playing all…

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· 2mo ago
You may think you've experienced joy before, but you had previously never seen a mascot version of a 99-year-old woman with a cane dancing and cartwheeling around a baseball field in Springfield, Ill., which ushered in the inaugural weekend of the first professional women’s baseball league in nearly 30 years. I have never been happier than I was witnessing that moment. Our lives are all downhill from here. That mascot is modeled after Maybelle Blair, a former pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, honorary chair for the new Women's Pro Baseball League advisory board, and wearer of iconic sunglasses. As was mentioned several times on the broadcasts of the WPBL's first two games, she broke four ribs and still made sure she was in Springfield for the occasion. Because I risk writing 1,000 words about everything I love about Maybelle Blair, I will put it succinctly: She is cool as fuck. The mascot Blair is not dressed in the human Blair's sensible slacks, nor the WPBL's uniform. Instead, mascot Maybelle wears the skirted uniform of the AAGPBL that many will recognize from A League of Their Own. The AAGPBL was everywhere during the new league's opening weekend. Springfield, the location for all of its games this season, was chosen specifically to reference the historic league. Former players came to watch. Fans wore Rockford Peaches merchandise and shirts that read "There's no crying in baseball." And commentators made reference to the famous "dirt in the skirt" line from the movie when talking about sliding. But the women of the WPBL wear pants, and they don't have to perform a rigid version of femininity. That's a big deal, even now.
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Hal Pomeranz @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
· 2mo ago
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@DemonHusky@mas.to @thomasconnor@mstdn.social @my_roxbury@better.boston Choosing “home cities” for the #WPBL teams from the major sports media markets—even though all games are in Springfield, IL—is kind of cheesy. But I hope it is successful in generating fan interest. I’d be happy for ESPN to move the games to their “ESPN zone” ballpark here at Orlando Disney World though. It’s a beautiful little park and much more convenient to me!
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