Detroit Danger Women's Elite Baseball Club

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DETROIT DANGER WOMEN'S BASEBALL CLUB

The Detroit Danger is a women's baseball team which began its first season in June 2000 (the Danger played as the Metro Detroit Renegades in 2000 and the team name was changed to the Detroit Danger in 2001). We play full-fledged, regulation baseball on regulation baseball diamonds... as in hardball... overhand pitching, 60 foot mound, 90 foot bases, leading off, stealing, bunting... the whole canoli. The Danger is a member of the Great Lakes Women's Baseball League (GLWBL) and plans to play in a local men's/coed league in 2009. The Metro Detroit Renegades/Detroit Danger became the first-ever women's baseball team in history in Southeast Michigan when it began its inaugural season in 2000.

The Detroit Danger consists of women with various levels of baseball, fast pitch softball, and slow pitch softball experience. This includes little league, high school, and amateur baseball experience, little league, high school, amateur, and collegiate fast pitch softball experience, and recreational slow pitch experience.

The Detroit Danger is very active in the community, as its members have volunteered to help many charities and youth organizations in the Detroit area. The charities/youth organizations that the Danger has worked with are the Detroit Tigers, Imagination Sports, Inc., Athletes for a Better Detroit (ABD), Don Bosco Hall, Jack's Place for Autism, Sandcastles Grief Support of Henry Ford Hospices, and the Youth Sports and Recreation Commission of Detroit. The Danger is interested in helping other local charities and youth programs. Please contact us if your organization would like to partner with the Detroit Danger.

We, along with various women's baseball organizations, teams and leagues throughout the world, are dedicated to and are striving to heighten the awareness, levels and standards for and participation in women's baseball. We take pride in the fact that we play baseball out of the extreme passion we have for the game.

DETROIT DANGER MISSION STATEMENT

The Detroit Danger mission is to provide Metro Detroit and Michigan with the most competitive, elite women's baseball team possible which will compete in various baseball competitions (league and non-league) around the world, and to provide to women the opportunity to play baseball at an elite level.

Copyright 2001-2009 Detroit Danger Women's Elite Baseball Club. All Rights Reserved. (The Detroit Danger logo and all art within this web site is trademarked and/or copyrighted.)

The Danger is always interested in recruiting new players. Open/individual tryouts will be held by request. Any group tryouts will be posted on the site. If you are a woman, at least 16 years old, and have baseball and/or softball experience, please contact us if you are interested in playing. If you are 14 or 15 and have solid baseball skills and ability, you will be considered to join the team.

The Detroit Danger is always interested in adding qualified coaches to its staff. If you have baseball and/or fast pitch softball coaching experience, and if you are interested, please contact us. If you would like to be an assistant or an intern for the Danger, please contact us.

WOMEN'S BASEBALL NEWS

For Danger workouts... please click Schedule to get to the calendar. The schedule was updated on 3/3.

North American Liberty Belles Tournament Photo Album

North American Liberty Belles Tournament Blog

North American Liberty Belles Player Bios Photo Album

North American Liberty Belles Player Bios on the Girls Play Baseball Web Site

Shawna Macurio's Baseball Journal

Jen Liu's Baseball Blog

Tiffany Brooks' Interview About Women's Baseball with Frankie the Sports Guy

Tiffany Brooks' Stick and Ball Sports

Viva Las Vegas!

The North American Liberty Belles will be headed to Las Vegas, Nevada on May 21 to play in the NABA Memorial Weekend 35+ baseball tournament there from May 23-25. The team will practice for a couple of hours on Friday, May 22 and will begin play on the 23rd. The Belles will be the only all-women's team in the tourney, and Danger players Kat Shriner and Shawna Macurio are part of this team.

The Belles also will be stopping by Sunrise Children's Hospital on the 22nd before their team practice to visit with several ill children and to give each of them gifts such as a copy of the children's baseball book "A Glove of Their Own", "Play It Forward" bracelets, and autographed team photos.

The team is really looking forward to this trip and visiting with the children to help brighten their day!

GO BELLES!!!

NCAA Reverses Interpretation That Softball And Baseball Are The Same Sports

NCAA Baseball and Softball
Talking Points
February 2009

NCAA legislation governs NCAA amateurism regulations, allows student-athletes to use four seasons of competition in any one sport and limits outside athletic activities in the student-athlete�s sport (amateur team participation, etc.).

Previous interpretations of NCAA legislation stated baseball and softball were the same sport for NCAA amateurism and outside competition regulations. Therefore, a softball student-athlete could not participate on an organized baseball team during the academic year, for example, without jeopardizing her eligibility in softball.

The Women�s Sports Foundation asked the NCAA Committee on Women�s Athletics (CWA) to review the issue of softball and baseball being considered the same sport. The CWA asked the divisional interpretive bodies to reconsider the interpretations.

Based on the information gathered, including a West Virginia court case that treats the sports as different, NCAA Divisions I, II and III voted to reverse the interpretations.

The reversal now allows a softball student-athlete, for example, to participate on a baseball league and vice versa, within other NCAA rules and bylaws.

Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women's Baseball

Exhibition
City of Fullerton Museum

2009 NABA California Kickoff Classic Wood Bat Tournament

Danger player Shawna Macurio played in the NABA California Classic Wood Bat Baseball Tournament from January 17-19 in Los Angeles, California.

Shawna was invited to play on a men's team in one of the divisions. The tourney was open to women players and women's teams, but most participants at this point are men. Shawna and another female baseball player, Tiffany Brooks, were the only women in the tournament and played on the same team.

Press release: Upcoming book on the state of women playing Baseball in the USA

Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don�t Play Baseball
Author: Jennifer Ring
University of Illinois Press

North American Liberty Belles � Hong Kong Bound in 2009

Danger players Kat Shriner and Shawna Macurio went to Hong Kong, China in February with 10 other North American female baseball players (from the U.S. and Canada) to be part of the North American Liberty Belles women's baseball team. The Belles (named in honor of the Racine Belles who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and 1950s) participated in the 2009 Hong Kong Phoenix Cup International Women's Baseball Tournament.

The annual tournament was played from February 14-17 in Kowloon, Hong Kong. This was the 2nd year for the international tourney, and teams from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), and Australia also participated in the event, and many national team players from the various countries were part of the other teams.

The Belles were very strong in their performances and thus were undefeated in all of their games leading up to the championship match. The Belles topped the solid Korean team in their first game by a score of 10-5. They then defeated the Hong Kong contingent, 18-5, later that same day. Those 2 victories gave North America the 1st place sede in their pool, sending them to a playoff game vs. a very tough, solid hitting, and improved Taiwanese team. This playoff game would determine who would advance to play for the gold medal and who would battle it our for the bronze the next day.

In a weird array of events, the Belles were only able to play 1/2 inning in the playoff game vs. Taiwan. They had a very solid pitching and defensive 1st inning to find that they wouldn't be allowed to bat in the 2nd half of the inning. A Taiwanese coach was questioning some of the home plate umpire's calls, to which the umpire responded unhappily. After the Belles sent Taiwan down in the 1st inning, a disagreement occurred between the coach and the umpire, the coach was ejected from the game, and then the coach pulled his team off the field in protest. What would've been a very exciting and competitive game turned into a jaw-dropping event. Nonetheless, the North American team respects Taiwan's decision and continues to have a close and friendly relationship with it and looks forward to seeing the team again next year. Perhaps there will be a rematch!

By default, the Belles won the protested game by a score of 7-0, sending them to the gold medal match vs. a very tough Japan. Even though North American played a good game against the Far East Bloomers, they failed to score a single run in the game. Nervousness, no doubt, played a role in their loss, but the Belles gals make no excuses and know they can improve and give Japan more of a run for its money next year!

So, the North American Liberty Belles walked away with silver medals and a 2nd place trophy at the 2009 Hong Kong Phoenix Cup International Women's Baseball Tournament (Oh... and they also had a terrific time). Not too shabby!

Fantasy Camp
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Danger player Lynda Allerding played in the 2009 Detroit Tigers Fantasy Camp in Lakeland, Florida at the end of January. This was Lynda's 2nd fantasy camp, as she attended last year for the first time.

2008 U.S. Women's Baseball National Championship/Roy Hobbs Cactus Classic

Great Lakes Tide Women's Baseball � Danger players Sandy Maurer, Heather Bauduin, Kat Shriner, and Shawna Macurio were part of this team, and Danger coach Larry Bauduin was the team's manager.

~Info was updated on 9/26 to include sponsor info, teams that are participaing, and tournament schedule.~

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2008 IBAF III Women's Baseball World Cup results � Team USA takes bronze

**South Bend Tribune article about the 2008 Can-Am Women's International Baseball Tournament... Danger player Lynda Allerding and her family are mentioned in the article.**

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**Positive Thinking Magazine article on Danger player Shawna Macurio**

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Former AAGPBL Players To Reunite At Simmons Field

The women who made history playing baseball in a bygone era will reunite, while a new generation of women will compete during the three-day Hall of Fame Classic at historic Simmons Field in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

USA Baseball will scout the tournament, July 4-6, to identify players for the 2008 women's national team. Five teams have been invited to participate: New England Women's Red Sox, Nashua Pride, Aussie Hearts, Chicago Pioneers and Washington Stars.

A contingent of former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players also will be on hand for a July 4 ceremony to rededicate Simmons Field in Kenosha, the former home of the Kenosha Comets.

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Danger players Heather Bauduin, Lynda Allerding, and Shawna Macurio played in the 2008 Can-Am tourney in South Bend, Indiana from June 27-29. Heather and Lynda played with the South Bend Blue Sox, and Shawna played with the Chicago Gems I.

Danger player Shawna Macurio played with the Blue Thunder in the Baltimore-Washington Diamond Classic women's baseball tourney May 24-26 in Maryland.

An episode about Jackie Mitchell, female pitcher who signed a minor league contract with the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931 at the age of 17, aired on Fox Sports during the show "Amazing Sports Stories." Jackie struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig while playing the Yankees in an exhibition game. There is actual film footage of the event.

Article about women's baseball and the U.S. women's national team

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