Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1970s, Maria Pepe and the National Organization for Women took Little League Baseball to court for gender discrimination.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Pepe’s desire to play baseball made her a trailblazer on the diamond. In the summer of 1972, Pepe, then 11, made a Little ...

The year 1972 will forever be a meaningful one for Hoboken’s Maria Pepe. It was then, 50 years ago, that she joined and was forced off a city Little League baseball team because of her gender and then ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Little League has honored with its highest award the woman who as a girl is credited with prompting the world’s largest youth sports organization to allow girls to play on ...

She had first picked up the sport when she was around 5, playing with other kids in her Hoboken neighborhood. She remembers running down the stairs and into the streets to play whiffle ball and ...

Maria Pepe and Jean L.S. Patrick, illus. by Sarah Green. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-316-46423-9 The bravery and determination of baseball player Maria Pepe propels this ...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — "Girls With Game 50" signs can be found inside the Little League International Complex in South Williamsport. The organization is getting ready for this weekend's Maria Pepe ...

Baseball is for girls, too. Maria Pepe has always thought so. She held her own playing with the neighborhood guys in Hoboken, New Jersey. She watched the Yankees on TV. In fact, when she was asked ...