12-year-old Girl throws Perfect Game, NY Times reports on Women Baseball

A 12-year-old Mackenzie Brown from New Jersey became the first girl in Bayonne Little League history to throw a perfect game last Tuesday. She retired all 18 boys she faced, twelve through strikeouts, including the last six in a row.  According to Little League Baseball about 50 to 60 perfect games happen each year, through no one knows how many through girls. Mackenzie Brown gets rewarded for her feat, as she will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field, Flushing Meadows today before the start of the game between the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals.

If Mackenzie Brown continues this path she might gets an opportunity to play Baseball at the 2016 Olympics. Jeré Longman of the New York Times reported this week about the intentions of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) to include Women’s Baseball into the bid for reinstatement to the Olympic program this year.

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Having whiffed on an attempt to link its Olympic future with women’s softball, baseball is now following another gender-equity route in an attempt to gain reinstatement to the Summer Games of 2016.
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Baseball officials have aligned with the relatively seldom-played game of women’s baseball to burnish its chances of gaining re-entry into the Olympics after being dropped from the 2012 Summer Games in London.
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It is too early to know whether such a move will prove shrewd or merely desperate by baseball, which was evicted from the Olympics for several reasons, including concerns over the lack of participation by major leaguers and widespread doping.

Read the full article: Baseball ties Olympic Reinstatement Bid to Women’s Game