Posted On: February 18, 2010
Girls Can Play Baseball, Too, Thanks to Judge Pressler
As a sports lawyer who is also the father of a little girl, I was fascinated to read the obituary of Judge Sylvia Pressler, who died earlier this week.
As a hearings officer in New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights, she ruled in favor of a 12-year-old girl who wanted to play for a Hoboken Little League team.
“The institution of Little League is as American as the hot dog and apple pie,” she wrote in her ruling. “There is no reason why that part of Americana should be withheld from girls.”
Thanks to Judge Pressler, girls playing sanctioned Little League baseball is an everyday occurrence.
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