Photo credit: © Phyllis Ewen
Original founders of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, photographed in the 1970s: (L-R) standing in back row: Wendy Sanford, Paula Doress-Worters, Joan Ditzion, Judy Norsigian, Jane Pincus, Norma Swenson, Nancy Miriam Hawley; seated in front row: Pamela Berger, Ruth Bell Alexander, Vilunya Diskin, Esther Rome.
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Justine Siegal became the first woman to pitch batting practice in a major league spring training camp when she threw to the Cleveland Indians on Monday.
Not only did she pass the test with flying colors, some people became a little envious along the way.
WASHINGTON — When the whistle blew and the opening kickoff sailed through the air on a beautiful late-summer night, Natalie Randolph could finally take a deep breath and focus on the thing she wants to do most – coach football.
After months in the media spotlight, Randolph made her debut Friday night leading the Colts of Coolidge Senior High School. She is believed to be the nation's only female head coach of a high school varsity team.
Kathleen Sebelius
21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
A self-described "jock" who shined on the basketball court, where she was team captain, and in field hockey.
Judy Sweet, standing with Bernell Hooker, Founder and CEO of Images of Us Sports was honored in 2006 for the IOU Sports Lifetime Achievement Award in Milwaukee, WI.
Milwaukee, WI - The All American Girls Professional Baseball League, "Power of the Human Spirit Luncheon" honored local and national women. The 1992 film A League of Their Own, although fictionalized, covered the founding and play of this league.
Pictured from left to right are WNBA President Donna Orender, Sheila Johnson, Lincoln Holdings Chairman Ted Leonsis, Irene Pollin, Washington Sports and Entertainment Chairman Abe Pollin, and NBA Commissioner David Stern Mitchell Layton/NBAE/Getty Images
By Bryan Chu
DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF
bchu@media.ucla.edu
(Reprint Courtesy of Bryan Chu)
At first glance, coaches wouldn't give her a chance.
Natalie Nakase didn't mind. She's been overlooked and underestimated her entire life.
(March 1, 2006)
*The late Effa Manley, co-owner of the former Newark Eagles Negro League baseball team, has just entered history books as the first woman to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Manley is among the 17 Negro League Hall of Famers elected by a special committee in Tampa, Florida charged with recognizing African Americans shut out from Major League Baseball, which was segregated until 1947.