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First Pitch: 1:10 PM CT<\/p>\n

TV: Twins.TV<\/a><\/p>\n

Radio: TIBN<\/a><\/p>\n

Know Thine Enemy: McCovey Chronicles<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not bury the lede this afternoon: Happy Mother\u2019s Day! I hope you all have a chance to, at very least, have a conversation with the beloved mothers or women in your life! They always appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

Grid View<\/p>\n

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If you are looking for a really good \u201cpodcast listen\u201d, I\u2019d like to direct you to a recent Effectively Wild series<\/a> on the enigmatic Ella Black. It can of course also be found on any podcast aggregator service.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll let host Ben Lindbergh spin the whole tale if you are so inclined to give it an ear, but the basics are:<\/p>\n

\"Podcast<\/p>\n

I am an affirmed podcast junkie<\/p>\n

Photo by Sebastian Kahnert\/picture alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ella Black was the first woman to ever cover baseball for a national publication (The Sporting Life)\u2014writing about the 1890 Pittsburgh Burghers & Alleghenys of the short-lived Players League.<\/p>\n

Ella\u2019s publications only appear in that single calendar year and baseball\/newspaper scholars have often theorized that Ella Black was perhaps a pseudonym for a male writer.<\/p>\n

But even amidst the vagaries of trying to truly verify anything from 1890, Lindbergh makes a compelling case that Ella was, in fact, a woman and an obvious pioneer in sports coverage from females.<\/p>\n

\"Jake<\/p>\n

This is the baseball era we\u2019re talking about here<\/p>\n

Today, the Twins look to make all their mommas proud as try to sweep the weekend series with the San Francisco Giants<\/a> behind this compilation of competitors…<\/p>\n

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