The Salem Red Sox, the organization’s Class A affiliate, announced Wednesday that their booth will feature professional baseball’s first all-female broadcast team this season.
Melanie Newman and Suzie Cool will debut together on April 23. The organization noted that there are eight women calling games in the professional ranks, and just three — Kirsten Karbach (Reading Fightin Phils), Emma Tiedemann (Lexington Legends), and Jill Gearin (Visalia Rawhide) — in the minor leagues.
“I’m so beyond thrilled to be joining Salem for numerous reasons,” Newman said. “The timing could not have been more perfect; the ability to finally work with Suzie, after bonding over social media, the way most of us women in sports have, makes everything come full circle.