If Kate knew about this article she’d likely ask that it be scrapped, but this is Lookout Landing’s second Women in Baseball Week and it simply would not be complete without some recognition and appreciation for our fearless leader, Kate Preusser.
To be a woman in baseball is to be competitive. Your drive to succeed must be unshakeable enough to withstand, well, pretty much anything imaginable - the threats, the undue skepticism, the constant questioning of your abilities, the baseless cruelty directed at you from all sides. It’s all too easy for that steely competitiveness to trick you into viewing others as threats, rather than allies, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth with Kate.