About the Author

John Kovach writes program articles for the South Bend SilverHawks and is currently working on the committee for a South Bend Baseball History Hall of Fame. He is a former local amateur ball player who now manages a women's amateur team in the Great Lakes Woman's Baseball League, and in 2002 he became the first male to be honored by the National Woman's Baseball Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.