The baseball made an audible popping sound as it landed in my mitt. Standing across our front lawn, the person who’d delivered the ball with such force, was my daughter Mirabelle, long brown hair in a ...
HOBOKEN -- If you don't know Maria Pepe, you probably haven't had a girl in your life who wanted to play Little League. As a tween, Pepe tried out for -- and made -- a Hoboken Little League baseball ...
The year 1972 will forever be a meaningful one for Hoboken’s Maria Pepe. It was then, 50 years ago, that she joined and was forced off a city Little League baseball team because of her gender and then ...
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Little League has honored with its highest award the woman who as a girl is credited with prompting the world’s largest youth sports organization to allow girls to play on ...
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — "Girls With Game 50" signs can be found inside the Little League International Complex in South Williamsport. The organization is getting ready for this weekend's Maria Pepe ...
HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork)--Saturday was the start of Hoboken Little League season, and to make the occasion, the city is honoring a woman who stepped up to the plate and changed the history of the ...
She had first picked up the sport when she was around 5, playing with other kids in her Hoboken neighborhood. She remembers running down the stairs and into the streets to play whiffle ball and ...
Maria Pepe’s desire to play baseball made her a trailblazer on the diamond. In the summer of 1972, Pepe, then 11, made a Little League team in her hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey — despite Little ...
EDGEWATER — It was about a year ago when Major League Baseball coach Justine Siegal decided to create more baseball tournaments for girls. Siegal is the founder and executive director of Baseball for ...
In the 1970s, Maria Pepe and the National Organization for Women took Little League Baseball to court for gender discrimination. By the time they won the case opening Little League to all girls, Pepe ...
Baseball is for girls, too. Maria Pepe has always thought so. She held her own playing with the neighborhood guys in Hoboken, New Jersey. She watched the Yankees on TV. In fact, when she was asked ...
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