DODGERS UPDATE: NEW PROGRAM AIMED AT WOMEN.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer Dodgers vice chairman Jamie Jamie is a given name, derived as a pet form of James. However, it has been used as an independent given name in English speaking countries for several generations. Though Jamie was originally exclusively male, since the 1950s it has also been used as a female given name, McCourt McCourt is an surname of Irish origin. To learn more about the origins of the name, see McCourt origins McCourt may refer to the following individuals:
The Dodgers will offer clinics, events, programs and opportunities for women of all ages. McCourt, who went to games in Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. as a child, grew up with a mother who loved baseball. ``I came home one day and announced that I wanted to buy a baseball team,'' McCourt recalled. ``I was a tomboy tomboy Psychology A popular term for a girl whose developmental gender-identity/role is discordant with her genotype. Cf Sissy. . Everyone wanted to buy a baseball team.'' Now she and husband Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt (born August 19, 1930) is an Irish-American teacher and author. have one. The Dodgers are intent on attracting more fans to the ballpark, particularly women, and McCourt wants to facilitate it. She said 40 percent of the fans who attend Dodgers games are women and that the Dodgers found women want to spend more time with their families. Jamie and Frank McCourt have four sons, but Jamie has welcomed other women to share in the front-row seats in which she and Frank usually sit for home games. ``It's kind of eye-opening,'' Jamie McCourt said. ``It's very interesting having people we're meeting come sit with us. Someone sat with us (recently) and said, 'Oh my God, you taught us so much.' What I'm finding is that women are afraid to ask questions. They don't ask questions. You don't have to be embarrassed if you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. the answers.'' There will be a link for the program on the team's Web site at dodgers.com. Jill Painter, (818) 713-3615 jill.painter(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): box Box: DODGERS AT CINCINNATI - Daily News |
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