The Siren Spotlight series launched with a brilliant longread from baseball superstar Amy McCann about the long and fascinating history of women’s baseball in Australia. Long before the All American Girls Professional Baseball League catapulted women’s baseball into popular culture in the 1940s, Australia was busy crafting leagues of their own all over the country. …
Erin Delahunty speaks to history-maker Genevieve Beacom, after she became the first female to play for a professional baseball team in Australia on the weekend. Victorian baseball prodigy Genevieve Beacom, a left-hand pitcher with a blazing fastball recently clocked at 134km/h, has been making history since she started striking out boys in under-12s aged nine …
Amy McCann recaps the celebration of women’s baseball that was the Australian Women’s Baseball Showcase—the curtain-raiser to the inaugural women’s professional league in Australia.