A Place that Was Safe, Where I Knew I Was Strong: Women in Baseball Week, with Kat Williams

<p>We celebrate the 4th annual Women in Baseball Week by talking to Dr. Kat Williams about her new book, <a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496218827/">Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban-American Baseball Star</a>. We examine what it means to view a life through the lens of sports identity, and celebrate the work of the <a href="http://www.internationalwomensbaseballcenter.org/">International Women’s Baseball Center</a>, where Kat is Board president. (The full interview with Kat will be released as a separate episode)</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/17/with-opening-day-approaching-latest-mlb-coronavirus-testing-data-shows-encouraging-trend/">MLB’s testing results</a> are markedly better this week, both in number and in process. Several players are finally getting cleared to train, just days before Opening Day. Among them, asymptomatic <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29489476/yankees-dj-lemahieu-says-contracting-covid-19-was-scary-experience">DJ LeMahieu</a> with his rollercoaster of a testing experience, Victor Robles after the doomed plane from the DR, <a href="https://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2020/07/santander-late-arrival-in-summer-training-camp-due-to-covid-19.html">Anthony Santander</a> recovering from mild symptoms, and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/braves/2020/07/18/braves-freddie-freeman-describes-covid-battle-please-dont-take-me/5465904002/">Freddie Freeman</a> coming all the way back from what he thought was near-death. <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/yasiel-puig-announces-hes-tested-positive-for-covid-19-will-not-join-braves-191851157.html">Yasiel Puig</a> is a responsible adult, and we hold out hope that he could still be an Oriole. And Pottymouth points out that if <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29471277/phillies-didi-gregorius-says-wear-facemask-games-due-kidney-condition">Didi Gregorious</a> can hit a three-run homer off of Max Sche