Betty Caywood was a sportscaster. Eccentric owner Charlie Finley
hired the former Chicago TV weather reporter to do color commentary for
his struggling Kansas City Athletics in September of 1964. On September
16, 1964, she became the first woman to broadcast a Major League game.
She eventually
was handed play-by-play duties as well, becoming the first female to do
that as well, but was not retained for the 1965
season. A contemporary newspaper account records Yankees manager Ralph
Houk as having claimed that Finley beat the Yanks to the punch as they
were considering hiring a female broadcaster for 1965. Caywood was the last female to regularly broadcast Major League games until Suzyn
Waldman was finally hired by the Yankees in 2005.
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