'Miss Mary' Garber, the only woman to win sports journalism's highest honor, the Red Smith Award given annually by the Associated Press Sports Editors, died Sunday afternoon at a retirement home in Winston-Salem. She was 92..."
Ball girl Rosie Santizo waits on the first-base side for a foul ball. She started working for the Mariners at age 16.
Edgar Martinez with Rosie Santizo
Arien O'Connell hugs her mother Susan O'Connell after finishing the Nike Woman's Marathon on October 19, 2008 in San Francisco, Calif. (Beth Murphy / Courtesy to The Chronicle)
Arien O'Connell runs the Nike's Woman Marathon course on Sunday, October 19, 2008 in San Francisco, Calif. (brightroom.com / Courtesy to The Chronicle)
Nike fudges, recognizes fastest marathon runner as "a" winner Arien O'Connell, 24, ran the Nike Women's Marathon with the fastest time of 2:55:11 on Sunday, but hadn't won because she wasn't listed with the Elite runners. (Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle)
WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania - November 14, 2008 Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour, President of the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, was voted Chairman-Elect of the Little League International Board of Directors, it was announced by board Chairman Dennis Lewin.
Mamie "Peanut" Johnson - Former Negro League Pitcher who was signed by the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953, played with the team from 1953 to 1955, had a 33-8 won-loss record and a batting average of .273. - appearing here during an event highlighting an exhibition at the Smithsonian - Anacostia Museum Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia - On view indefinitely
Ila Borders Blazes A Female Trail - New York Times - September 18, 1997 - She is immortalized on a stadium mural and has a championship ring. More important, Ila Borders, the first woman to pitch in the minor leagues, has plenty of memories. In her breakthrough season in the Northern League, she finished 0-0 with a 7.53 earned run average in 15 regular-season games, allowing 24 hits over 14 1/3 innings while walking 9 and striking out 11. She added a scoreless inning in the title series as Duluth-Superior beat Winnipeg. She said the Dukes have told her they will bring her back next season. ”It was a dream, basically,” she said of the season, highlighted by her likeness on a mural outside St. Paul’s Midway Stadium.
Ump Carolyn Making the Call - When it comes to umpiring, however, the twenty-three year-old arbiter breaks that societal mold. Ump Malmi has umpired baseball for four seasons now, the last two at Cooperstown Dreams Park (CDP) in upstate New York, and the experience has lit a new baseball fire for her. Aspirations that she once had for playing the national pastime now focus on umpiring... - New Jersey Baseball Magazine
ISTANBUL — On a recent cold, gray Sunday, two Turkish premier league soccer teams enthusiastically ran onto the field of a small stadium on the outskirts of Istanbul - Players for Kartalspor and Gazi Universitesispor.
Jerome Gray, right, is helping lead an effort to name the field at Rosedale Recreation Center after pioneering player Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, left. (By Joel Richardson For The Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060301498.html
Margaret Borley, Tonbridge Coach, receives M.B.E in Queen's Birthday Honours
Kimberly Anyadike, 15 stands in front of her single-engine Cessna plane during her historic cross-country flight. Kimberly Anyadike, 15, becomes youngest African American female to pilot plane cross-country http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/07/14/2009-07-14_kimberly_anyadike_15_becomes_youngest_african_american_female_pilot_to_fly_plane.html#ixzz0NyGBEGGt
Mike Norris - Norris goes back to where it began, gives back - by Gwenn Knapp Mike Norris talks to a young baseball player during a practice at Margaret Hayward Playground; Norris works with a program to try to get more African American kids to play the game. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/16/SPIN18601E.DTL
Mike Norris had a 22-win season in 1980. Photo: Scott Sommerdorf, 1990 / The Chronicle Mike Norris - Norris goes back to where it began, gives back - by Gwenn Knapp Mike Norris talks to a young baseball player during a practice at Margaret Hayward Playground; Norris works with a program to try to get more African American kids to play the game. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/16/SPIN18601E.DTL
Ashley Chester, seen here with brother Keith, is organizing a fundraiser for youth sports in Chilliwack at the Chapman Auctioneers building on Old Orchard Road on Nov. 14. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS http://www.bclocalnews.com/sports/64990302.html
Sgt. Theresa Lynn Flannery during an attack in April 2004 near Najaf, Iraq, as other soldiers used a wall for cover. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16women.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1250424449-/od9yyiccwahurg7itC2yg
Lisa Bodenburg, shown in Iraq in 2008, is a Marine sergeant who is one of the few women to be a crew chief on a Huey helicopter. Photo by Cheryl Bodenburg http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16women.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1250424449-/od9yyiccwahurg7itC2yg
