Erin and I first connected through social media back in 2016 during the time that I was building my network of female baseball players and advocates of women and girls playing baseball. We immediately connected because she was also an avid Red Sox fan. Like many of the women that I was connecting with at that time, she had participated in the first ever Boston Red Sox Women’s Fantasy Camp.
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After Toni became a Nun, she went on to earn her Bachelor of Science Degree in English, History and Math from Alverno College. She then earned three Master Degrees and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught in the Physical Education Department and the School of Social Work at the University.
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Ryan is a board member of the International Women’s Baseball Center (IWBC). We first connected back in 2016 when my old organization, the BIG Vision Foundation, in partnership with the IWBC sponsored the Ruth Hartman Memorial Girl’s Baseball Festival.
At the time, Ryan was living in Wilmington, Delaware and wasn’t a member of the IWBC board yet. He wasn’t sure if he really should to drive up to check out the event. After some convincing from his friend, Debbie Pierson, he did go, and it turned out to literally be a life changing event for him.
A few weeks later, he received a call from IWBC president, Kat Williams asking him to serve on the organizations board. He accepted, and the rest is history. Ryan was the brainchild of the IWBC’s Women in Baseball Week and has been an active member of the board since he joined the organization.
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This was the last podcast that I was able to do while Sandy and I were at the BFA Nationals in Aberdeen, Maryland. She puts the explanation point on the ten amazing women that I was able to sit down with and talk to at that event.
Rocky is the third former Colorado Silver Bullet as well as the third member of Evolution Girl’s Baseball that I was able to sit down and talk with.
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Beth and I first met back in 2018 when she was on a road trip from New England to Pittsburgh with mutual friends of ours, Erin Pappas and Jacque Reynolds to participate in an women’s baseball event that the Pirates were sponsoring. On the way through, they stopped by the sports complex that I was managing at the time just outside of Reading, Pennsylvania.
It was a great visit, and Beth and I, who would have been 18 at the time and just out of high school, connected on Facebook. Since then, I have been able to follow her journey as she became one of only seven young women to be rostered on an NCAA baseball team this past spring.
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Jennifer literally eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball. I’m pretty sure that if you took an X-Ray of her chest, you would see a baseball beating as her heart. At one point in her life, she said that if she could live on a baseball field, she would. Her dream was very close to coming true when we were able to connect and talk at the Baseball for All Nationals as she was juggling her coaching duties between both the DC Force Girl’s Baseball team and the Alexandria Aces of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Summer League.
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Denae is a member of the Evolution Girl’s Baseball 19-U program as well as a member of the US Women’s National Baseball team that won the gold medal in Mexico in 2019.
Still on location at the Baseball for All Nationals, Denae has been participating in the BFA National tournament since 2016 when she played in the 2nd annual event in San Francisco. Even at a young age, Denae understands the importance of paving the way and helping to create more opportunities for the young girl’s that will be following behind her.
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Then I woke up from one of my wonderful naps, and mommy and daddy were talking about heading west to Washington state. They’ve been talking about this for a while, but we just seemed to keep driving back and forth from Pennsylvania to Florida, so I never really knew if it was going to happen.
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Alex is a former member of the United States Women’s National Baseball team, as well a current member of national team coaching staff and the founder and president of the San Francisco based, Evolution Girls Baseball program.
This was another one of the podcasts that I was able to do on location at the Baseball for All Nationals in Aberdeen, MD.
We talk about her journey from baseball player to baseball coach. She played in a women’s professional baseball league and then onto the US Women’s National team. She was named to the national team coaching staff in 2019.
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Merrie is also a published author. She published the book, The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 2006. The book was originally her master’s thesis, and as she became more involved with the players association, several of the former players were so impressed with her work, that they convinced her to get it published. Merrie donates a large portion of the proceeds from her book to the players association.
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In this episode of “The Journey of My Mother’s Son” podcast, I sit down to talk with another...
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