She's Ready to Play Baseball:

a blog of women's baseball. Yes, baseball.

Lairderg

Lairderg
Location
Turnersville, New Jersey, United States
Birthday
June 26
Bio
Yes, that's me, ringing up a little mojo for my Fightin' Phils during the 2008 World Series. I grew up, in 1950s and 60s suburbia, with the heart of a frontierswoman. I grew up a Catholic with the heart of a seeker of the Divine Feminine. I grew up a girl and a woman, when being either "just wasn't good enough," with the heart of a warrior priestess of a warrior goddess. My favorite television shows are (from the mid 90s) Profiler, (from the early 21st Century) Witchblade, and (now) Saving Grace, so you know where my mind still is. I was a journalist before big advertising bullies started owning the media and quit (after a long, loud battle) when I saw what they were doing. I was the oldest, and the most eccentric, of seven children in an Irish American family. I married, divorced, and now have a significant other. I am a "budding" herbalist, a mother of four avians (My poor Keenan died recently.), a guerilla gardener, an adjunct professor of pre-composition college writing, a poet, a fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, a feature writer, and now a player and a blogger of women's baseball.

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AUGUST 24, 2008 11:58PM

Catching rays in a championship game? What a guy!

 

Between the first two baseball games for Team USA in Matsuyama, Japan, the Philadelphia Women’s Baseball League played its annual championship game, this year at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. My (and Kristin Mills Caldwell’s) first place team, the Rocks, faced the Blue Crush,… Read full post »

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AUGUST 23, 2008 3:50PM

Bad feeling

While I am waiting for the 2008 Women's Baseball National Team to play its first game in Japan, I ponder Senator Barack Obama's pick of Senator Joe Biden from Delaware. The bad feeling in the title does not come from Biden, whom I've recognized as "one of the good guys" in politics… Read full post »

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AUGUST 22, 2008 5:07PM

Make all the women’s team uniforms sexier? Shut up!

 

I’m sick of the media’s sexual objectification of female Olympic athletes—and the athletic, as well as societal, double standard. The IOC needs to be more concerned about keeping the games fair then they are about the lack of appeal of the United States Softball Team’s… Read full post »

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AUGUST 19, 2008 5:24PM

Let's help the "other" national baseball team, okay?

The 2008 USA Women's Baseball National Team, recently finalized its roster for Women's World Cup III to be played in stadiums near or in Matsuyama, Japan.  Team is expected to arrive tomorrow and is scheduled to play its first game of the tournament against the Chinese Taipei women 9:3… Read full post »

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AUGUST 17, 2008 3:39PM

Baseball after injury?

 

These questions are related:

"Why aren’t you writing about more important issues than whether or not women get to play on baseball diamonds (Little League to Major League)?"

And

"Why are you going to continue, after you got smacked in the face?"

My answer to both of these questions is… Read full post »

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AUGUST 16, 2008 3:26PM

Betrayed by a cultural lie

Even though I was born a year before the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League called it quits, I never heard about women playing professional or any baseball until decades later. In the meantime, I grew up watching my brothers and other neighborhood boys play the national pastime on fields… Read full post »

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AUGUST 14, 2008 1:40PM

The 52-year-old rookie

Recently, I had Philadelphia Phillies catcher Chris Coste sign my copy of his book, The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made It to the Big Leagues After 11 Years in the Minors. I bought the book for two reasons: I like Coste's enthusiasm for the game, and I had hoped he… Read full post »

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AUGUST 13, 2008 3:42PM

Women playing baseball? Yes!

In this blog, I plan to write about women's baseball. Yes, WOMEN'S baseball.

Here's some facts to start us off:

1) Team USA Women's Baseball exists, and even though it is not a part of the current Olympics, it has won two World Cups in international women's baseball competitions conducted… Read full post »

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