Washington • Rep. Roger Williams knew when he saw his colleague Mia Love tossing strikes, snagging grounders and slapping singles that his team needed her. She had talent.
Love isn’t the first woman to play in the nearly all-male baseball game – Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., donned the uniform in the 1990s – and Democrat NanetteDiaz Barragán is playing on her party’s team this year. But it’s one more step in breaking the gender line.
Love took the mound as a pitcher in last year’s women’s softball game and also played second base. In that game, female members of Congress take on women from the Washington press corps.