Bat‘HER Up

Episode 12 features LA Times sports writer Helene Elliot breaking down the Jared Porter incident with Shannon. 

You can find the piece they spoke about here: https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-01-21/mets-jared-porter-helene-elliott

Follow Helene on Twitter: https://twitter.com/helenenothelen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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Learn more about the IWBC:

http://www.internationalwomensbaseballcenter.org/

Learn more about the Association of Professional Ballplayers:

https://apbpa.org/

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Lisa is a content creator, former co-founder of The Relish and Emmy winning producer. She currently works for Advocates For Minor Leaguers, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of MILB players.

 

Learn more about Advocates For Minor Leaguers: https://www.advocatesforminorleaguers.com/

 

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Jacara Ware found herself working for the Arizona Diamondbacks after mentioning she wasn’t a baseball fan during an informational interview. Since then, she has risen the ranks of the organization and is currently a Senior Marketing and Advertising Coordinator. Jacara is the founder of HeartWare Marketing- a company that assists athletes and businesses with strategic marketing, branding and business consulting. She is also heavily engaged in her community and is a Board of Director for WISE, AZ.

 

Learn more about HeartWare Marketing: https://heartwaremarketing.com/

Listen to Jacara’s Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/32ACflqE4UtfCAh0loAjF5?si=tCFND9P1Rr-wyeGl4AcNxw

Follow Jacara on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msjayware/

 

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In this episode Shannon and Barbara Gregorich spoke about Barbara's journey from baseball fan to baseball writer, what drew her to baseball and the moment she decided she was going all in on her dream to write a book. As always don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to the show. 

 

Barbara's website: http://www.barbaragregorich.com/

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This weeks episode features Olivia Witherite, a digital/social media content creator for The Athletic. We spoke about our mutual love of Steve Cohen's Twitter, why baseball needs to do a better job marketing its players and of course the ever exciting Kim Ng hiring. 

 

You can find Olivia on Twitter at: @oliviawitherite 

Read her piece on The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/2200908/2020/11/16/witherite-kim-ngs-hiring-brings-a-glimmer-of-hope-for-many-including-me/

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Hannah Keyser is a writer for Yahoo Sports and host of The Bandwagon. She named her childhood lizards after Lenny Dykstra, got banned from Citizens Bank Park, became tight with the Phanatic, this list goes on and onc. She calmly watched a bird fly into my house, was totally chill about it and turned what could have become a horrific moment of unprofessionalism into the most normal thing ever, so basically, she's awesome.

 

Read her work: https://sports.yahoo.com/author/hannah-keyser/

Watch The Bandwagon: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtAg01865jDcGWU057GcyOzReN2nT6giz

Follow her on Twitter: @HannahRKeyser

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Learn about More Than Baseball: https://www.morethanbaseball.org/

 

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Kat Williams is a lifelong baseball fan, author, professor, founding member of the IWBC, the list goes on and on, which is great because it made for a great conversation. We touched on her upbringing but spent most of our time talking about the impact the ladies of the AAGPBL made on her life. 

 

Learn about more than baseball (the fine folks presenting the show): https://www.morethanbaseball.org/ or @mtb_org on Instagram

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Learn more about the IWBC: http://www.internationalwomensbaseballcenter.org/our-board.html

Find out where you can buy Kat's books: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=author%3AWilliams%2C%20Kat%20D.

Todays episode features Jean Ardell, a lifelong Yankees fan and author. We spoke about how she became a Yankees fan, what drew her to becoming a writer and the inherent sexism she's dealt with over the years as a woman in baseball. The bulk of our conversation was centered around Jean's newish book Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey, which tells the story of Ila Borders, an athlete Jean stumbled upon in 1994. We chatted about the process of writing it, Jean's friendship with Ila and why baseball books written by women rarely get the publicity they deserve, especially in comparison to their male counterparts. 

 

Jean Ardell is a writer, speaker and researcher. She's presented in Cooperstown, at SABR's conference, and the NINE Spring Training conferences amongst others. She's written two books on the game- Making My Pitch and Breaking Into Baseball: Women and the National Pasttime. She became a Yankees fan as a kid and hasn't looked back since.

Check out her website: http://www.jeanardell.com/index.html

Buy her books: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=jean+ardell

 

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Imagine going to one of the country's biggest baseball colleges and not realizing it until months into your time there? That's exactly what happened to Katie Walden during her first few months at Vanderbilt University. It started with the crack of the bat, the most iconic of sounds and eventually led to Katie becoming one of Minor League Baseball's biggest advocates and researchers a few short years later. Since that moment, Katie has seemingly done it all, interned at Cooperstown, become a college professor, get recruited by organizations that assist minor league players to assist these often underpaid athletes, and so much more. We touched on all of this in our conversation, but focused mostly on the minor leagues.. what baseball needs to do better, the importance of unions and just how messed up the industry is. 

Find Katie's work here: 

https://kwaldenphd.com/

https://twitter.com/kwaldenphd?lang=en

 

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Links to the organizations we spoke about:

More than Baseball: https://www.morethanbaseball.org/

Advocates for Minor Leaguers: https://www.advocatesforminorleaguers.com/

Adopt a Minor Leaguer: https://adoptaminorleaguer.com/

 

 

 

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