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14

Congressional women’s softball: Just don’t say “They throw like girls!”


From Politico:

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) had had enough. The boys always play baseball together and practice for hours. Though women can join, it’s rare. And so the feisty Floridian, who announced just this year that she had successfully battled breast cancer, teamed up with Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) to create a bipartisan female softball team. They’re set to play their first — only? — game against staff from the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee —  benefiting the Young Survival Coalition. [emphasis in original]

I particularly like how whatever proceeds they get will got to a charity.

And remember, a lot of these women now serving remember the impact Title IX had on them.

Hattip Cincinnati.com’s Politics Extra blog.

FYI: That would be…one blog (Politics Extra) taking news from another blog (Politico).  And it doesn’t seem to have made the print version of anything anywhere yet.  News anyway?  I think so.

If anyone has more news on the team and its future, please drop a comment or email.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:41 am July 14th, 2009 in Congress, Government, Politics, Sports, Women 

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