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Lincoln Holdings Purchases Mystics
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
Natalie Nakase Becomes First Asian American Female in Pro Basketball League
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.
WOMAN AMONG 17 BLACKS ELECTED TO BASEBALL HALL: Co-owner of Newark Eagles is first woman to be enshrined.
(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.