| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's baseball | ||
Representing  United States | ||
| Women's Baseball World Cup | ||
 | 2010 Venezuela | Team competition |
 | 2012 Canada | Team competition |
| 2014 Japan | Team competition |
| Pan American Games | ||
 | 2015 Toronto | Team competition |
Jenna Marston (born July 16, 1991) is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. [1] [2]
At Principia High School in Missouri, she played on the boys' varsity baseball team with her brother Christopher. [3] Before high school, she was on a travel team with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. [4]
Playing for Team USA at the 2010 Women's Baseball World Cup, she logged a .593 batting average, second highest among all players. She led all Team USA players in the tournament with 16 hits and eight doubles. [5]
Earning a softball scholarship at the University of Missouri, she played catcher, outfield and shortstop.
Alexander Joys Cartwright Jr. was a founding member of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in the 1840s. Although he was an inductee of the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball," the importance of his role in the development of the game has been disputed.
Ella Cara Deloria, also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ, was a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American oral history and contributed to the study of Native American languages. According to Cotera (2008), Deloria was "a pre-eminent expert on Dakota/Lakota/Nakota cultural religious, and linguistic practices." In the 1940s, Deloria wrote a novel titled Waterlily, which was published in 1988, and republished in 2009.
Julie Croteau is an American former college and professional baseball player. She is recognized as the first woman to play men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) baseball, as well as the first woman to coach men's NCAA Division I baseball and one of the first women to play in a Major League Baseball-sanctioned league.
Marvin Goldklang is a minority owner of the New York Yankees and the majority owner of the Pittsfield Suns in Massachusetts. He is also the principal owner of the Charleston RiverDogs, the New York Yankees’ affiliate in the Class A South Atlantic League. Since 2004, he has been in the Hall of Fame of the South Atlantic League. He was inducted in the Florida State League Hall of Fame in 2010, the New York Penn League Hall of Fame in 2018 and was elected to the board of trustees for Minor League Baseball in 2014. He also previously owned the Fort Myers Miracle, the Minnesota Twins' entry in the Class A Florida State League as well as the Hudson Valley Renegades, the Tampa Bay Rays’ affiliate in the short-season New York–Penn League.
Ross Newhan is an American former sports writer, best known as a columnist for the Long Beach Press-Telegram and baseball writer for the Los Angeles Times. He began his career in 1961 and retired in 2004.
Ira Berkow is an American sports reporter, columnist, and writer. He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to the staff of The New York Times for their series How Race Is Lived in America.
The United States women's national baseball team is a national team that represents the United States of America in international women's baseball competitions. It is controlled by USA Baseball and is a member of the Pan American Baseball Confederation (COPABE).
Margaret Davis Jacobs is an American historian. She is the Chancellor's Professor of History and Charles Mach Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Alan Marshall Clark is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1976 to 1999, and throughout both Major Leagues in 2000 and 2001, wearing uniform number 24 when the American League adopted them for its umpires in 1980, then retained the number when the NL and AL staffs were merged in 2000. Clark umpired 3,392 major league games in his 26-year career. He umpired in two World Series, two All-Star Games, five American League Championship Series, and three American League Division Series. Clark worked second base in the 1978 one-game playoff between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, which the Yankees won 5–4. He was the home plate umpire in Nolan Ryan's 300th career win on July 31, 1990.
Jenny Dalton-Hill is an American former collegiate All-American softball player and current sports commentator. She played for the Arizona Wildcats from 1993 to 1996 where she won three Women's College World Series championships. Having also played baseball, Dalton-Hill is a former member of the Colorado Silver Bullets and United States women's national baseball team, earning a bronze medal at the 2010 Women's Baseball World Cup. She holds the career Pac-12 and NCAA Division I records in RBIs. She is the first and one of nine NCAA players to hit .400 with 200 RBIs, 50 home runs and an .800 slugging percentage in her career.
Veronica Alvarez is an American baseball catcher. She is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Donna Mills is a baseball player who competed with the United States women's national baseball team.
Tamara Holmes is a baseball player who competed with the Colorado Silver Bullets and the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. Heading into 2015, she has hit more home runs that any other women's baseball player.
Malaika Underwood is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Marti Sementelli is a member of the United States women's national baseball team which won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Lilly Jacobson is a former member of the United States women's national baseball team.
Meggie Meidlinger is a member of the United States women's national baseball team. At 6'2", she was the tallest member of the US roster that captured the bronze medal at the 2008 Women's Baseball World Cup.
Tara Harbert is a member of the United States women's national baseball team. Her father, Roger Harbert played professional baseball in Australia during the 1960s.
Mary Elizabeth Murphy, known as "The Queen of Baseball", was the first woman to play professional baseball, competing with male athletes in 1922. She played baseball for seventeen years as a first baseman; she also played on several all-star teams and was the first person of either sex to play on both American and National league baseball teams.
William Ashton Ellis was an English doctor and theosophist. He is remembered for translating the complete prose works of Richard Wagner.