For
all you youngsters out there with good eyes and a knowledge of the sports pages
(or any middle-aged sports fans with progressive lenses), yesterday’s tiny-type
“on this date” feature tucked between the box scores noted that on June 5,
1996, 21-year old Pamela Davis pitched a scoreless inning for the AA
Jacksonville Suns against the Australian men’s Olympic team.
Go
on the internet and you’ll find Davis saying, “I just want to be an inspiration
to 8- and 9-year old girls that if this is their dream, they should follow it.” Davis gave up a double to the first batter
she faced before retiring the next three hitters. The right-hander pitched for the women’s Silver
Bullets baseball team in the mid-1990s.
If only Coors Beer had cared enough to keep funding the team, Davis
might not be relegated to “remember when this happened then” status.
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