Episode Details

Maybelle Blair was a women's baseball trailblazer turned airplane manager. After baseball, she had a 37-year career at Northrop Corporation, where she ended up as the highway transportation manager, one of the three female managers the company employed in that period. Professor Emeritus of Women’s Sports History at Marshall University and CEO of the International Women’s Baseball Center, Dr. Kat D. Williams, joins us to tell Maybelle's story, she has just published her latest book "All the Way: The Life of Baseball Trailblazer Maybelle Blair." 

• Aired on: April 9, 2025 
• Guest: Kat Williams 
• Host: Steve Buss 
• Producer: Blaine Seaboalt 
• Produced by: Commemorative Air Force

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