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All In: Women and girls in sports By Joyce Bassett on April 18, 2021 at 9:40 PM
When Title IX was very young in the early ’70s and enduring its first decade of growing pains, two women in Guilderland spearheaded an effort to fight for gender equality in sports.
Charlotte O’Donnell was a young homemaker raising five children when she became the force behind an organization formed to improve opportunities for women on the playing fields. Now 86, O’Donnell got her start as an advocate for equal rights when she went to bat for her daughter, Sheila, who was determined to play baseball in the Pine Bush Babe Ruth League.
Fred Field, beloved Colonie politician, dies at 88
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Students Stephanie Rower, Delmar; Steve Smith, Schenectady; Jean Dumas, Albany, and John Sawaya, Albany work with Assemblyman Fred Field on legislature. Field died at 88 on Friday, March 12, 2021. Undated (Roberta Smith/Times Union Archive)Roberta Smith/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less
2of15Buy PhotoRaymond Skuse, Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson and Fred Field shake hands. 1969 (Bud Hewig/Times Union Archive)Bud Hewig/Times Union Historic ImagesShow MoreShow Less
4of15Buy PhotoVan Rensselaer Village Project groundbreaking - Walter Langley, Anthony Stellone, Richard A. Farris, Fred Field, Mayor James F. Cavanaugh, Reverend James H. Curley. A housing first for Metroland. State of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller Governor - Van Rensselaer Village; a 100 unit residence community; an open occupancy project for a better Watervliet. November 01, 1971 (Knickerbocker News Staff Photo/Times Union Archive)Knickerbock
Grondahl: Forgotten for decades, mystery box bonded Albany to Holland
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Carol Mayone holds a plate sent in 1946 to her when she was 6 as a thank-you gift from Ineke Keyser in Nijmegen.Paul Grondahl / Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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This porcelain keepsake depicts the bridge over the Waal River where the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division pushed back Nazi forces and liberated the Dutch city of Nijmegen in September 1944.Paul Grondahl / Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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This photo of Carol Mayone, whose maiden name was Cross, appeared in the Knickerbocker News in 1946 when Albany collected a humanitarian shipment for war-torn Nijmegen.Paul Grondahl / Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Mohawk Giants brought Hall of Fame-level talent to Schenectady
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Walter Johnson, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, had one of his greatest seasons in 1913, going 36-7.
But that fall, the Mohawk Colored Giants, a Black baseball team in Schenectady, added an unofficial loss to Johnson’s tally when he and an all-white team of major leaguers came to the city as part of a barnstorming tour.
Facing Johnson was Giants’ pitcher Frank Wickware, who possessed “one of the fastest fastballs of the era,” according to Steven Rice, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Wickware was so confident that he would frequently belittle his opponents’ efforts by calling in his outfielders, reported a 1961 Schenectady Gazette article, “and there is no record that this bit of show-boating ever backfired.”