PRO WOMEN’S BASEBALL RESUMES FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1954: A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN IS BACK!

Almost eight decades after she last played baseball, Maybelle Blair returned to the diamond—in a wheelchair—to inaugurate the new women’s US baseball league. It brought Blair’s uniquely American story full circle—and she wasn’t going to miss it for anything.

Good News Network reports that almost eight decades after she last played baseball, Maybelle Blair returned to the diamond—in a wheelchair—to inaugurate the new women’s US baseball league.

The report adds: It brought Blair’s uniquely American story full circle—and she wasn’t going to miss it for anything.

“I tell you, I broke four ribs recently,” the 99-year-old told a news crew from WICS.

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