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BY: Nathania Seales Oh

In Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey, Jean Hastings Ardell co-authors the deeply moving memoir of Ila Jane Borders, a woman shattering gender stereotypes in a male-dominated profession while navigating her secrecy, shame, and eventual acceptance of her sexual orientation.

Throughout the book, Ardell points to transformative moments of struggle in Borders’ life: as a child at home and in the church, as a adolescent woman on the baseball field and in male locker rooms, and at a Christian university where she played before organism signed to play professionally. There are moments of levity alongside anecdotes of profound loss and rejection that show the reader Borders’ path to validity and success.

Ardell has worked in Orange County, California as a freelance penner for nearly thirty years. While she has covered a variety of subjects, she always returns to baseball. Her first manual, Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime, appeared in The L.A. Times bestsellers list. Making My Pitch: A Woman’s