Homerun for equal rights.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: The hard-hitting players of the Blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. , and all-girls softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team in Grants Pass, Ore., won an outstanding battle on the field ... and in court. The girls had to share a practice field with the city's little-league teams Noun 1. little-league team - a team that plays in a little league team, squad - a cooperative unit (especially in sports) little league - a commercially sponsored baseball league for players between 8 and 12 years of age , even though there were two other fields in town-used exclusively by boys-only baseball teams. So the Blaze and the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. Women's Right Project stepped up to the plate and filed a lawsuit against the city of Grants Pass, demanding use of the other fields. Victory! Now, the belles of the Blaze get equal access to all city fields. So see? A little crack of the bat goes a long way. |
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