Throughout her years as a minor league broadcaster, Melanie Newman would give the players she had grown close to a hard time about their ambivalence to reaching the majors. She would always ask what it was like, envisioning a future for herself there, but the players’ responses would generally follow along similar lines: the field is still the same; the bases are still 90 feet apart; the mound is still 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate.
Earlier this week, Newman made Orioles history as the organization’s first female play-by-play broadcaster, doing so for Tuesday’s radio broadcast against the Miami Marlins.