First, it sailed through the air on a perfect Seattle summer evening; rolling off of Ginny Gilder’s fingers, rainbow stitches tumbling towards home plate.
Then it traveled down the coast, where Iowayna Peña gripped it in her hands on the mound at Oracle Park. Then east, to Kansas City and south to Tampa, where Greg Baker and the Rays announced the new Billy Bean Scholarship before Baker threw it off the rubber. Tramour Wilson hurled it in Baltimore, and then it returned to the west, taking center stage at the Diamondbacks Pride Night.
“It’s been a labor of love, the Pride Ball,” says Keri Zierler, Seattle Mariners Creative Director and architect of the Pride Ball.