Amanda Asay, the star catcher/first basewoman who led Canada to the bronze medal at the 2006 Women’s Baseball World Cup, is playing with the boys in the Prince George Senior Baseball League this year, and holding her own, at that. The league consists mostly of former college players, age 19 and up.
Awesome.
I’m currently working on a year-long research project on the globalization of baseball, courtesy of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Over the next 12 months, my project will take me to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Australia, Puerto Rico, Okinawa, and Venezuela, and I decided to set up this blog to share some of the things I pick up along the way.
This is nice, not only to see more diversity in the game but actually finding a place writing about it.