To the editors:
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This letter is in response to the article written by Anne Moore which appeared on July 3 containing an interview with Terry Donahue from the All American Girls Professional Baseball League [Our Town]. More specifically, this letter is to address the remark printed in this piece that “There’s a women’s baseball league in Glenview now, but Donahue and her league friends have gone out to see the women play only once. They weren’t impressed and haven’t gone back.” Without saying more, printing this comment alone purposefully casts a disparaging light on our organization, which it does not deserve.
AWBA is a well-established women’s baseball organization. We have appeared in Sports Illustrated twice, and were covered this season in Women’s Sports and Fitness (national magazine) and Chicago Sports Profiles (local magazine). Most recently we’ve appeared in the Washington Post, a segment on the Today show, and had our story released by the Associated Press on the national sports wire. AWBA is also a proud part of the same exhibit displaying the history of the All Americans at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
