Wellesley softball program finally gets its field of dreams
WELLESLEY — Eight years ago, Emily Willrich wrote a letter to the Wellesley Townsman with a simple question: "Why are the boys baseball fields so much nicer than the girls softball fields?" Willrich, then 12 years old, asked. According to the Townsman article, the boys played night games under the lights, had public address announcers and a scoreboard. The girls softball games didn't have any of that. For Willrich, who wasn't even a teenager yet, she knew that there was a clear disparity between the boys baseball experience and the girls softball experience. However, not much real...
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