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Women are slowly making their way into the broadcast booths of professional baseball. Last season Emma Teidmann and Rylee Pay turned heads when they joined up to do play by play the Portland Sea Dogs minor league team. And this week, they made their major league debut, making history as the first two women to call several innings for the Boston Red Sox.

The Portland Little League All Stars are one win away from a trip to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

The Gray-New Gloucester-Raymond Little League team didn't win either of its two national games in Pennsylvania, but it remains the New England regional champions for 2023.

The scanner, developed with another Maine company, Newfangled Solutions, can be placed in major league baseball clubhouses. There, it can scan the dimensions of a particular bat remotely, and send the measurements to Dove Tail's factory in Shirley, Maine, which can return a completed bat within 24 hours.

NPR host Scott Simon is in Maine as the keynote speaker for the Hospice Thresholds Conference. He joins us to discuss his recent books (on topics ranging…

Sports news in the headlines. The Baseball Hall of Fame results will be announced today. Are Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens headed to Cooperstown? Also the…