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Jamie Shupe

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6/8/2017 8:58:14 AM

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"Lisa Marchiano" <timetodream14@gmail.com>

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Subject: Academia's Token Baseball Player
This is Hofheimer's first full season since tee ball, but New Roads is small enough there was room for him on varsity. His teammates know his history, but pay far more attention to his hitting
and fielding.
"Yeah, we know Jake is different," teammate Brandon Deutsch said, shrugging. "We know he hasn't played very much."
He doesn't throw well, so they position themselves closer to catch his tosses. He is still figuring out how to hit, so they loudly cheer for him when he's batting as if trying to coax the ball to hit
the bat.
He's never an all-star, but he's always part of the team, hanging in the dugout spitting seeds with the dudes, backslapping and high-fiving and cracking up at the schoolboy jokes. His best
moments are not giant home runs or diving catches, but the little instances of proper recognition, words that now empower him and never get old.
"C'mon boy!" they shout. "You can do it, man!"
He's the smallest (5 feet 4) and least-skilled player on the team, but when he tucks his blue cap low over his curly hair and pulls his pant legs low on his cleats, he looks and feels like a
ballplayer.
When he can't make the throw from second to home, the catcher takes a few steps toward the infield. When he's struggling at the plate, theyrock the dugout fence and yell tips.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-transgender-baseball-plaschke-20160410-column.html
And then glamorized in this law piece with all the bad stuff omitted.
http://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1361&context=mslj