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	Re: Sources??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ila Borders is the first professional baseball player in men’s professional baseball league.
		According to Mike Aufustin, Borders was quite surprised, because her male teammates treated her with respect.
		Borders tried to be a major leaguer, but the reason came not from the major league player.
	courses.dsu.edu /engl101-1/_disc6/0000029d.htm (1131 words)

	Ila Borders \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Memories of Ila Borders: The First Sightings of Ila in St Paul by Richard "Lefty" Sepulveda
		Contribute your recollections of Ila Borders by clicking here.
		Borders was pitching for the Zion Pioneerzz of the Western Baseball League.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/B/Borders_Ila.stm (166 words)

	Ila Borders - StarIQ.com
		Ila Borders (born February 18, 1975, in La Mirada, California) accomplished this feat.
		Ila’s Mars stands strongly supported by her Moon in Taurus, which is in a favorable 60-degree sextile to it.
		With the astrological strikes (a strong chart and favorable transits) piling up for Ila (remember, strikes are a good thing for a pitcher), the widely popular Baseball Weekly recently touted her attributes.
	www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0000875.htm (918 words)

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		The thing Ila Borders needs to recognize is that she wouldn´t have been out there playing baseball in high school and college, much less professionally, if not for all of the groundwork laid by the feminists who, among other things, helped ensure the passage of Title IX.
		Obviously, Borders wouldn´t have gotten this far if she didn´t also have natural talent and a lot of determination, but there were a lot of women before her who had talent (I´ve played with some of them on the softball field) who never had her opportunities.
		I in no way expect or want Ila Borders, or anyone else, to say she is a feminist or a lesbian if she isn´t one.
	www.windycitymediagroup.com /archives/zip112598.html (596 words)

	NewStandard: 5/29/97
		As she has throughout her career, Borders also has had to be prepared to handle the reaction to her presence.
		Borders says she has encountered every reaction possible to being a woman playing what has been almost exclusively a man's game above the Little League level.
		Ila Borders has earned a spot on the pitching staff of the St. Paul Saints and could become the first woman to pitch in a regular-season minor league game as early as Friday.
	www.s-t.com /daily/05-97/05-29-97/d01sp193.htm (607 words)

	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - News Links - Pitcher’s start, victory in the pros made history
		Ila Borders, a pitcher for the Duluth-Superior Dukes, is the first woman to pitch, start and win a men’s professional baseball game.
		As a junior in high school, Borders was scouted by Southern California College and was the first woman to earn a college baseball scholarship.
		In 1997, she transferred to Whittier College, and, soon after, Borders signed a contract with the St. Paul Saints minor league team in Minnesota at the beginning of its 1997 season.
	www.post-gazette.com /newslinks/19990309womenkids.asp (337 words)

	Ila Borders Biography / Biography of Ila Borders Sports Stars Biography
		In 1997 Borders again proved her doubters wrong when she became the first woman to pitch for a men's minor league team.
		Despite her success, people still say that Borders will never pitch in the major leagues, but she has learned not to listen to those who doubt her.
		Ila (EYE-la) Borders was born February 18, 1975 in Downey, California, and grew up in nearby La Mirada.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ila-borders-spo (216 words)

	NealKarlen.com: New York Times Articles > Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Borders agreed to be featured on "60 Minutes," she ignored Mike Wallace after he had the temerity to approach her in the Duluth locker room last month after she'd already put on her game face shortly before taking the mound against the Sioux City Explorers.
		Borders returned to Duluth last May to find the city had taken her to its heart.
		Borders was on the mound, where she put in five innings, giving up a reasonable three runs against Thunder Bay.
	www.nealkarlen.com /articles/nyt/diamonds.shtml (1079 words)

	Female Hall of Famer plans to pitch her way to the major league (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Borders, 19, said she's been playing baseball since she was 10 years old.
		Borders said she heard a lot of good things about Southern California College and after she visited the campus, she knew it was the school for her.
		Borders will be part of the Hall of Fame's "Women in Baseball" exhibit, which will feature the various roles women have played in the history of the game.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol61/950915/6b.html (836 words)

	NewStandard: 6/1/97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Borders became the first woman to pitch in a regular-season game last night when she came in during the sixth inning of the St. Paul Saints' Northern League game against the Sioux Falls Canaries.
		A left-hander, Borders received a loud standing ovation from the crowd of 3,335 at Sioux Falls Stadium when she relieved Saints starter George Glinatsis.
		Borders, at 22 the youngest player on the independent Saints roster, made the team last week after a two-week tryout.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-97/06-01-97/c02sp110.htm (111 words)

	Golden Baseball League
		In 1997, Borders became the first woman to ever pitch in men’s professional ball and the first to play at all since “Tomboy” Toni Scott played first base in the Negro Leagues.
		Borders, a left-hander from Southern California, featured a fastball clocked in the low 80’s alongside a big curve and screwball.
		In 2000, Borders moved on to the Western League, where she played for the Zion Pioneerz.
	www.goldenbaseball.com /ArDisplay.aspx?ID=36&SecID=123 (957 words)

	Baseball Travel: Wade Stadium, Duluth
		Ila Borders made her mark in Duluth, winning national attention for being the first woman to start a game as a pitcher in organized baseball.
		Yes, the Dukes promoted the heck out of her, but Ila's done a pretty good job of marketing herself as well, as evidenced by the Ila Borders merchandise available at the official Ila Borders Web site.
		Still, Borders' performance was subpar, even by Northern League standards, and she was dealt to the Madison Black Wolf in the middle of the 1999 season.
	www.kreichard.com /baseballtravel/wade_stadium.html (1841 words)

	Ila Borders: Brown Hair, Blue Eyes — and a Wicked Curve Ball
		California native Ila Borders still remembers the night she went with her father to her first major-league baseball game.
		Ila races truimphantly from the field to the cheers of the hometown crowd as her teammates offer high fives and pats on the back.
		From the beginning of her quest, Ila had grown accustomed to nasty comments, profanity and abuse from people who couldn’t handle a female’s success in a game dominated by males.
	www.briomag.com /briomagazine/reallife/a0004603.html (1759 words)

	Major League report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Borders, 21, is a junior at NAIA Southern California College in Costa Mesa.
		Borders received acclaim a couple of years ago when it was reported she was the first woman to pitch in a college baseball game.
		If Borders is selected in the draft, she won't be the first woman selected there, either.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/sbbw0520.htm (639 words)

	June 3rd, 2004
		Borders was playing for $10,000 if she struck Lang out, but instead received $1,000 for her appearance.
		Ila said the money would go to her academy.
		Ila, don’t be bitter, consider yourself lucky, and go stand next to the bearded woman.
	www.sportsphds.com /editorials/readarticle.php?articleID=271 (684 words)

	Pitcher brushes Mike Wallace back
		Wallace was in Duluth, Minn., for a "60 Minutes" story about Ila Borders, the first woman to win a game in a men's league professional game.
		Borders, who plays for the minor league Duluth-Superior Dukes, is the first pitcher to take the mound for a men's pro team, the first to start in a men's pro game and the first to win one.
		Wallace might be able to take some consolation in the fact that Borders felt pressure Friday, giving up three two-run homers in the first two innings of a game her team lost 9-5.
	www.recordonline.com /1998/08/24/wallace.htm (227 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI For Women - 100 Greatest Female Athletes - Monday November 29, 1999 03:56 PM
		When Ila Borders was signed by the Northern League's St. Paul Saints on May 29, 1997, many considered it to be a publicity stunt aimed at putting people in the stands.
		Through her longevity she has managed to dispel the notion that a woman playing in a men's league is merely a novelty.
		And for those still convinced she's just a sideshow, Borders' ball, glove and uniform are on display in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., commemorating her college and pro achievements.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /siforwomen/top_100/98 (367 words)

	Sheila: July 7, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ila Borders: "The first woman to pitch and win a men's professional baseball game."
		"Ila's ball, glove and uniform are on display in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, commemorating Ila's accomplishments in college and professional baseball." [Ila Borders' Milestones]
		Ila Borders retired from baseball in June 2000.
	sheila.inessential.com /2001/07/07 (313 words)

	The Baseball Reliquary - Induction Day 2003
		Ardell concluded her introduction with this assessment of the pitcher’s career: “Borders also reminds us of the tremendous changes that occurred for girls and women over the last quarter of the 20th century.
		Ila Borders walked to the podium to a standing ovation from the audience.
		Borders talked about her future outside of baseball, as well as the possibility of a return to the professional game: “Right now I’m training to be a firefighter.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /inductionday2003_recap.htm (5076 words)

	CBS News \| Woman Wins Minor League Game \| December 13, 1999 05:18:41
		Borders pitched six shutout innings, allowing three hits and two walks while striking out two.
		Borders was the most valuable player on her high school team in Whittier, Calif. After graduating from Whittier College in 1997, she was signed by the Northern League's St. Paul Saints and went to the Dukes in a midseason trade last summer.
		The Canaries are owned by Mike Veeck, former owner of the Saints and the man who gave Borders the opportunity to break into the pros last year.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/07/25/archive/main14674.shtml (202 words)

	CNNSI.com - Women's Sports - Women's Sports Week at a Glance: Baseball pioneer Borders retires - Wednesday July ...
		Posted: Wednesday July 05, 2000 04:09 PM Ila Borders made the jump from the University of Southern Cal to the minors, the first woman ever to do so.
		Borders made her professional debut on May 31, 1997, when she entered the game in the sixth inning for the St. Paul Saints.
		She convinced many in the minor leagues that a woman could be competitive against men, and she has made the path easier for another woman to play America's favorite pastime.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /womens/news/2000/07/05/womens_glance (713 words)

	westword.com \| News \| Her Turn for Sainthood
		Is Ila Borders another wacky Saints publicity stunt, like Tobias the pig or the barber who sets up his chair behind home plate and lowers your ears for ten bucks?
		At Whittier Christian High School, he points out, Borders wasn't just the only girl on the baseball team; she was also named Most Valuable Player.
		In camp, Borders will have her work cut out for her if she hopes to follow suit.
	www.westword.com /issues/1997-05-15/sports_full.html (1467 words)

	Shrine of the Eternals 2003 Electees
		In an extremely close election, Marvin Miller, Jim Abbott, and Ila Borders received the highest number of votes, thereby gaining admission to the Shrine of the Eternals.
		Of the fifty eligible candidates on the 2003 ballot, Miller received the highest voting percentage, being named on 36% of the ballots returned, followed by Jim Abbott and Ila Borders with 33% each.
		Miller had been a candidate for election to the Shrine of the Eternals since 1999 and Abbott since 2000, while Borders made her first appearance on the ballot in 2003.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /Electees_2003.htm (295 words)

	The Gender Line - Page 2 - Baseball Fever
		Ila was a successful high school and college pitcher (on otherwise all-male teams) who went on to pitch for at least three years in the independent Northern League.
		She didn't exactly set the Northern on fire - in the three years I have stats for ('97-'99), she was a combined 2-4 with a 6.60 ERA, mostly in middle relief.
		Bly, the reason why the examples of Ila borders and Toni Stone (along with Connie Morgan, Peanut Johnson, et al) are not logical precedents is due to the tremendous difference in media coverage involved.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?p=10065 (3878 words)

	Jennie Finch
		La Mirada resident Ila Borders was the first woman to sign a professional men’s baseball contract and pitch in a men’s regular season professional game in 1997.
		Borders appeared in seven games with the St. Paul Saints.
		She was the first woman ever to earn a baseball scholarship and to win a men’s college game: 12-1.
	www.cityoflamirada.org /achievementpics.htm (610 words)

	ESPN.com - Independent leagues offer the all-important opportunity
		The Saints have been packing stadiums as if they were Bruce Springsteen while inspiring so many books you would have thought Princess Di had once pitched for them, not Ila Borders.
		What these leagues have done is prove that baseball extends far beyond the majors and well beyond the reach of Bud Selig.
		They've provided opportunities for players from Darryl Strawberry to Ila Borders, and hope for countless others.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1236816&type=columnist (1621 words)

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		Breaking into Baseball is augmented by twenty-four illustrations and a foreword from Ila Borders, the first woman to play more than three seasons of men’s professional baseball.
		Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Sporting News, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, and in the anthologies Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball and Growing Up with Baseball: How We Loved and Played the Game.
		In 1999, she earned the Society for American Baseball Research/USA Today Baseball Weekly Award for Research for her article, “Left-hander Ila Borders: Crossing Baseball’s Gender Line from Little League to the Northern League.” Ardell lives in Corona Del Mar, California, with her husband, a former first baseman for the Anaheim Angels.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/s05_titles/1ardell_breaking.html (649 words)

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