USA - A freshman girl would be allowed to try out for the Bloomington South baseball team under an agreement reached after her family filed a federal lawsuit over an Indiana High School Athletic Association rule that could ...

JAPAN - Japanese schoolgirl Eri Yoshida became the country's first woman to sign a professional contract with a men's baseball team. The pint-sized 16-year-old pitcher, whose favorite pitch is a knuckleball, was drafted by Kobe 9 Cruise, a team from the newly formed Kansai independent league, earlier this month. "My hope ...

USA - Logan Young has been playing baseball with the boys for nine years, and she and her parents don't think that should change now that she's in high school. The 14-year-old and her family have filed a federal lawsuit over an Indiana High School Athletic Association rule that prohibits the ...

JAPAN - High school student Eri Yoshida was drafted by an independent league team Sunday, opening the way for her to become the first woman to play professional baseball alongside male players in Japan. Full Article: http://www.japanball.com/news.phtml?id=13459

USA - The 2009 Women's National Championship will be hosted by USA Baseball on July 3-5 in Cary, North Carolina, at the USA Baseball National Training Complex (NTC). The Women's National Championship will feature a minimum of six teams and is ...

USA - A North American women's baseball team is seeking talented players for an incredible European Adventure in the spring/summer of 2009. An elite team of players from the U.S. and Canada is being organized to travel to The Netherlands and play against a couple of newly-created Dutch women's baseball teams ...

USA - Dottie Collins, who was a star pitcher in women’s professional baseball in the 1940s and later played a major role in preserving the history of the women’s game, died recently in Fort Wayne , Ind. She was 84. Pitching for six seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, ...