Mets honor former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher Maybelle Blair

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New York Daily News

Maybelle Blair recently found herself nostalgic for baseball. At 96 years old, she had spent a lifetime in baseball, watching, playing and serving as an ambassador for the sport. The former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher found herself missing a certain sound that always brings her back to her younger days in the game: Spikes on concrete. “There’s no sweeter music than by ear is to hear spikes against cement or hardwood,” Blair said Thursday at Citi Field. “You can hear that music. Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack. I loved it.” Blair was so nostalgic for t…

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