(Keith Allison, Trenton Thunder, Getty Images, AP)
Women lead when it comes to maintaining two of the nicest baseball fields in the world.
GroundskeepHERS, if you will.
The Detroit Tigers made Heather Nabozny the first female head groundskeeper in Major League Baseball history in 1999, the team's final season at historic Tiger Stadium, and she's kept the field at Comerica Park looking like as nice as it since it opened. That includes the major league All-Star Game in 2005 and the World Series in '06.
In 2007, the Baltimore Orioles named Nicole Sherry the head groundskeeper at Camden Yards, regarded by many as the best ballpark in the majors. And so appreciated was Sherry at her previous job with the Trenton Thunder (the Double-A team of the New York Yankees in the Eastern League), the team gave away a bobblehead doll of her.
Not only do these women have dream jobs in a male-dominated industry, they're excelling at them, and ESPN's Amanda Rykoff wrote a terrific profile of both. Nabozny, like most major league players, got her professional start in the minors. For her, that meant the Class A West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League:
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