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July 08, 2007

Cuban League Female Umpire

A recent email exchange with fellow SABR member Leslie Heaphy (an expert on both women in baseball and Negro leagues history) brought to mind a notable feature of the contemporary Cuban League which seems to merit an immediate blog entry. The Cuban League once again seems to far outpace the majors when it comes to groundbreaking innovations aimed at stripping away the sport's atrocious record (at least at the North American professional level) when it comes to including black ballplayers, black managers, black executives, and (God forbid!) female ballplayers or umpires onto its playing fields or into its male inner sanctums.

For the full blog post, and a photo of Yanet Moreno Mendinueta, visit Peter Bjarkman’s blog linked above.

Rod Nelson