Monday, May 05, 2008

WOMEN IN BASEBALL.

Nats’ blog We’ve Got Heart has a great interview with the lobbyist for MLB, Lucy Calautti, who grew up a Mets fan:

In 1962, a young girl waited patiently outside the Polo Grounds for her childhood baseball hero, Mets Short Stop Elio Chacon, to autograph a foul ball caught by her father.  Young Lucy Calautti could never have predicted that one day she’d be working at the right hand of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.  Some people spend a lifetime trying to find a job they love, but Lucy Calautti, Major League Baseball’s lobbyist, has achieved that dream.

A Mets fan by birth, Lucy spent her summer nights as a child at the newly opened Shea Stadium, just one subway stop from her home in Flushing.  It was there that Lucy first fell in love with the American pastime.  “My generation of men and women in New York were huge baseball fans.  You rode the subway, you talked baseball.  I mean, that’s just the way it was.”

Definitely worth your time to go over there and read. Hats off to the gals at We’ve Got Heart for a great idea.

[And while we’re talking about women in baseball, a belated, but well-deserved mention to The Church of the Fonz for her article on The Girls Of Summer. A must-read.]