Before Title IX There Was Maria Pepe Waiting 'His Turn At Bat'

Several Major League Baseball teams have racing mascots, including the Washington Nationals (presidents) and the Milwaukee Brewers (sausages). But one minor league team has introduced their own racers. And they may be the best characters yet.

Garfield Richards stands behind the glass, waiting and watching. He is about to participate in the most Canadian of rituals: a game of hockey. There were no farm ponds or backyard rinks in Jamaica, where he grew up. But that will not stop the father of two hockey-loving children, ages 4 and 8, from trying his hand at his adopted country’s national obsession.

Today marks opening day for the 2012 major leagu

?? With Devin Bigoness?? Before every Major League Baseball game, including the World Series being played this week, a baseball team manager has to present his starting batting order to the umpire.?? This is one of the most important decisions that a team manager has to make. In putting together this batting order - the ...

Report released on first day of Women's History Month

South Korea Thursday added a new team to its professional baseball league -- the first for 20 years -- in a bid to strengthen the appeal of the country's most popular spectator sport.Online game company NCsoft received a letter of approval from the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) to launch the country's ninth professional club and signed an agreement with its home city of Changwon."A new history has been written" in South Korean baseball, said KBO commissioner You Young-Koo at a launching ceremony at Changwon, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Seoul.

Acting Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank joined Tina Tchen, executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls; Preeta Bansal, senior policy advisor and general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget; and a panel of experts at the Center for American Progress today to discuss the findings of a new White House report, “Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being.” The discussion focused on women’s present role in families, educat

San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said the decision to drop outfielder Jose Guillen from the team's Major League Baseball playoff roster was not related to his links to a doping probe.The New York Times reported that federal authorities are looking at Guillen in relation to an investigation of performance-enhancing drugs, specifically at shipments of human growth hormone (HGH) to Guillen's wife.