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MLB GRIT: Girls ID Tour visited the Greater Philadelphia area where female athletes showcased their talent and ability as baseball players

Hillsboro Hops manager Ronnie Gajownik discusses her new manager position and celebrates National Girls and Women in Sports Day

Olivia Pichardo is making history as the first female baseball player to be on an active NCAA Division I roster. Pichardo was added to the Brown baseball team for the 2023 season on Monday. The 18-year-old freshman made the Bears' roster as a utility player after trying out for the...

CHICAGO -- Camila Rodriguez plays baseball -- as opposed to softball -- in part for one reason. “I’m able to compete with boys,” Rodriguez said during the MLB GRIT: Girls ID Tour stop in Chicago on Sunday. “I’m able to give them a challenge, so if I want to play...

This article was originally published on MLB.com on March 22, 2022. Shirley Burkovich, who played in the AAGPBL and had a speaking part in the movie “A League of Their Own,” passed away on March 31, 2022. Maybelle Blair turned 96 on Jan. 16 and continues to be an advocate...

Like a lot of girls, Jordan Andreas took dance lessons. She went and she learned. She learned it wasn’t for her. Her older brother played baseball, and it was obvious when she practiced with him and their dad at their Las Vegas home which direction her heart was pulling. At...

As part of International Women's Day, Jennie Finch discusses the female role models whose values have inspired her to create the Empowerment Award

Major League Baseball has announced two critical youth baseball & softball partnerships with EL1 Sports and Diamond Kinetics that will aim to increase accessibility to sports training, support diversity-focused grassroots and development programs...

Veronica Alvarez, Ronnie Gajownik and Rachel Folden join the conversation on women in baseball

VERO BEACH -- Standing atop the green grass and orange clay of the Jackie Robinson Training Complex, 25 girls picked up their gloves and bats in preparation for a sunlit afternoon of Florida baseball workouts. They talked and smiled as they soaked up the knowledge of professionals. They gritted their...

Few sensory experiences signify baseball's return better than the pop of a ball smacking home in a leather mitt or the crack of bat meeting ball. There were plenty of both on Saturday in Compton, Calif., along with bright sun and 70-degree temps that teased toward the fast-approaching summer slate...

NEW YORK -- Amid a changing landscape across baseball, the Mets have made an historic hire by bringing on Elizabeth Benn to be their director of Major League operations. Benn becomes the highest-ranking woman baseball ops employee in franchise history. An MLB employee since 2017, Benn worked for the league...