A coach is only as effective as the players are receptive to their coaching — no matter their gender, race or anything else.
When Alyssa Nakken stepped into the first base coach’s box in the third inning Tuesday night, it was a moment worth celebrating.
But the example that Nakken and the Giants are setting for boys and men is just as important, too. And it’s one that I keep thinking about, given my own baseball upbringing. Even after she gave birth to me in 1995 and my younger brother three years later, she kept playing baseball, mainly switching between catcher, third base and second base. She was playing in a tournament just three months after I was born when a hot grounder to third broke her wrist — an injury that forced my dad to get really good at changing diapers really quickly.
While my mom’s involvement with baseball never felt out of place to me as a kid, it became clear how unusual it was when I would talk to people as an adult. There’s even been a professional women’s baseball team in the 1990s, the Colorado Silver Bullets. The barnstorming team that played for four seasons even played multiple times in the Bay Area, including in front of 42,082 on May 15, 1994 at Candlestick Park.
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