Women's Baseball - The Inside Pitch
Join Amy McCann, Team Australia alumni (2002-2014) and 6-time WBSC World Cup representative, for a trip around the bases with some of women’s baseball’s elite players and coaches, in addition to a host of trailblazing women making their way in baseball all across the world. Learn what got them into baseball, how and where they developed their passion for the game, about their challenges and motivations, and what drives them each day.
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Episodes
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Stacey Saggus - 2012 - One World Cup Wonders
For the fifth episode of this series, we hear the story of NSW's Stacey Saggus who made her Nationals debut at the age of 15 at the 2003 Australian Women's Championship where she won gold!
Stacey shares with us her journey in baseball in NSW and her progression to the 2012 Australian Team at the World Cup in Canada.
#womeninsport #womensbaseball #womensbaseball
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Part 2 - Kathy Welsh - 2010 - One World Cup Wonders
For the fourth episode of this series, we hear the story of Victoria's Kathy Welsh who took up the sport in her early 20s, before making her Nationals debut at the 2005 Australian Women's Championship with Victoria Provincial, before graduating to the Victorian team where she was part of Victoria's three-peat in 2007-08-09.
Kathy shares with us the impact the Doncaster Baseball Club had on her career, in addition to her time in the Czech Republic, and her progression into the 2010 Australian Team where she won silver at the World Cup in Venezuela.
#womeninsport #womensbaseball #womensbaseball
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Part 1 - Kathy Welsh - 2010 - One World Cup Wonders
For the fourth episode of this series, we hear the story of Victoria's Kathy Welsh who took up the sport in her early 20s, before making her Nationals debut at the 2005 Australian Women's Championship with Victoria Provincial, before graduating to the Victorian team where she was part of Victoria's three-peat in 2007-08-09.
Kathy shares with us the impact the Doncaster Baseball Club had on her career, in addition to her time in the Czech Republic, and her progression into the 2010 Australian Team where she won silver at the World Cup in Venezuela.
#womeninsport #womensbaseball #womensbaseball
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Ep3 - ‘One Cup Wonders’ - Bec Crosby (2008)
For the third episode of this series, sit back and travel to 2008, and to Matsuyama in Japan, for the third IBAF World Cup and a chat with WA's Bec Crosby.
Making her Nationals debut in 2006 as a 15yo, Bec was part of WA's stunning 2010 and 2012 nationals winning outfits, before making her Team Australia debut at the 2008 World Cup in Japan.
#womeninsport #womensbaseball #womensbaseball
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
For the second episode in the 'Oe Cup Wonders' Series, we go back to 2006 and to Taiwan for the second IBAF World Cup, for a chat with Victoria's Terina Stokes.
Hailing from New Zealand, from making her baseball debut in a pair of trackies in the mid 90s, Terina's baseball career took her to the inaugural Victorian (1999) and Australian (2001) teams. And after becoming a mother of two, she made her World Cup debut at the age 37!
#womeninsport #womensbaseball #womeninsbaseball
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
2023 will see the return of the WBSC women’s baseball world cup for the first time since 2018, so to coincide with this, this season will focus on each of the eight World Cups held since 2004 …….. but with a twist!
A little background before we dive in. Less than 70 Australian women have donned the green and gold for Australia at a World Cup. I was privileged and honoured to represent Australia at the first six World Cups between 2004 and 2014 and it got me thinking about all the great team mates I had, many of which played one World Cup.
Sometimes I hear people say “I only played one… they only played one….’ And I figured we need to stop using the word ‘only’... cos I reckon that to reach the heights of national team selection, whether it is for one, or 6, or eight World Cups, well, you can play!
So for this upcoming eight-episode series, I will be sharing the stories of some of Australia’s One Cup Wonders. Eight amazing women who represented Australia at one of these World Cups!
For the first episode, we head back to the inaugural World Cup in Canada in 2004 to hear Kelly Gunn’s story.
A right-handed pitcher from NSW, Kelly Gunn shares her baseball journey which took her from a 13-year-old playing with the boys in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire to one of the country’s leading pitchers in the early 2000s including being the winning pitcher in New South Wales’ first ever Nationals victory in 2003 and on the mound when Australia recorded its first ever victory over Japan at World Cup. #womensbaseball #womeninbaseball #insidepitch
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
🎧 New Episode Alert 👉 Jason Pospishil - Team Australia Baseball Emeralds Manager.
From how Jason started playing baseball in Sydney, his move into coaching and across to the Emeralds, his coaching philosophies and of course the shaping of the Australian Squad for the 2023 WBSC World Cup, this episode sure has a lot packed into an hour!
Enjoy!
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Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
In 1999 in the western suburbs of Melbourne, 20 of the best women’s baseball players in Victoria would step onto the artificial turf at Melbourne Ballpark in Altona which would begin a legacy that remains unrivalled in the sport in Australia today.
The event - the inaugural Australian Women's Championships.
The team - the Victorian Women's Team.
The coach - Grant Weir.
Weir’s squad reigned supreme with an unbeaten run across the first three Australian Championships held from 1999-2001 in Melbourne and Sydney’s Blacktown Olympic Park.So how did it all begin?
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
#AWBC2022 A recap of the final day's WA v NSW game, plus Christina Kreppold, Erin Fox, Laura Neads, Shae Lillywhite and Amy McCann remember Jacinda Barclay & preview the gold medal game.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
#AWBC2022 The first sisters to play for Australia in a World Cup together, Kim and Tammy McMillan join the show to recap the clash of QLD v NSW.
WATCH the episode here https://youtu.be/-E1aEw9guH8
Kim (2008-2018) and Tammy (2016-2018) are both Country NSW alumni, but the pair later moved to play for NSW and QLD respectively.
Hannah Marshall and Jordan Richardson drop in live from Adelaide to recap their games!
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Women's Baseball the Inside Pitch will be coming at you with daily video podcasts during the 2022 Aussie women's nationals!
A stellar lineup of the country's biggest names to ever take to a nationals diamond will feature across the 2022 Australian Women’s Baseball Championships which are on in Adelaide from April 15-21.
We will chat about what nationals and repping their state means to them, we will relive glory days and best Nationals moments, plus we will discuss all the action from the champs at West Beach!