Kelsie Whitmore Makes History as First Woman in MLB Partner League NEW Episode on The Grindhouse Radio with Kelsie Whitmore Playing for the Staten Island FerryHawks NYC

(THE GRINDHOUSE RADIO STORY) LEVITTOWN, NY - (May 11th, 2022) - Baseball player Kelsie Whitmore, 23, has made history for becoming the first female baseball player in the Atlantic League for Professional Baseball (ALPB) -- an independent partner baseball league. In April, Whitmore signed to the Staten Island Ferryhawks in NYC staring her career as an outfielder and pitcher. According to MLB.com, Whitmore previously played exclusively for the United States women's national baseball team from 2014 to 2019 and was previously on the Sonoma Stompers. Tune in to this week's episode on The Grindhouse Radio with special guest Kelsie Whitmore and hosts Brimstone, Kim Adragna, and Tom Greer Thursday, May 12th, 2022 starting at 7pm EST | 4pm PST via the GHR Official Website (thegrindhouseradio.com), or any of over 25 syndicated networks including iHeartRadio, iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcast.

During the interview with The Grindhouse Radio hosts, Kim Adragna, Tom Greer (It'sMrGreer) and Brimstone, Whitmore said, "At the end of the day, I'm very grateful for being a part of this league and a part of this team with the opportunity to playing the game that I love."

Whitmore told The Grindhouse Radio, "I didn't really have any female role models growing up. There wasn't many females in the game at the time so, I definitley have guys growing up that helped pave the way, and my dads a big supporter - my family supported me all along."

Stats: Appeared in six games at centerfield for Team USA in the 2019 COPABE Women's Pan-American Championships...Batted .348 with four doubles, eight runs scored and eight RBIs...Also made two appearances on the mound, including one start, recording a 0.00 ERA...Tied for a team-leading five strikeouts while earning a win and allowing just one walk and one hit in 3.2 innings of work.

Appeared in seven games for Team USA at the 2018 World Baseball Softball Confederation Women's Baseball World Cup, including making two starts on the mound.

A member of the 2017 Women's National Team Development Program. (USA.com)

Follow Kelsie Whitmore on Social Media:
Twitter: @KelsieWhitmore
Instagram: @Kelsie_Whitmore


About The Grindhouse Radio: The Grindhouse Radio is an international award-winning a pop culture talk-based podcast that is currently syndicated on several digital & terrestrial radio networks (including iHeartRadio, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and 19 syndicated networks) worldwide with celebrity guests from The Walking Dead, Disney movies, TV shows, voice actors, etc., and listenership of between 3.5 - 4 million weekly worldwide. GHR covers topics like news, comics, music, geeky gadgetry, sports, movies and more. These are all perfectly blended into a 2-hour show. The Grindhouse Radio releases new episodes every Thursday night at 7pm EST/4PM PST. To learn more about GHR and the cast go to www.TheGrindhouseRadio.com

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The Grindhouse Radio, also known as GHR is an internationally syndicated, award winning, pop culture talk radio series that is featured on iHeartRadio, iTunes, Google Podcast, Spotify and over 25 other syndicated networks with between 3.5 - 4 million listeners weekly worldwide. The Grindhouse has been ranked as high as #15 on the Overall worldwide charts for iTunes, with a long run holding a weekly spot in the Top 20 Best Comedic Podcasts worldwide ranking highest at #6. Since 2015, GHR has become a trusted, daily destination for the fans.

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Albeit GHR is internationally syndicated - the show and its cast have a tremendous local appeal with between 620k -650k listeners respectively in the Long Island, New York market where they reside. They were nominated and voted the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Best Radio Station on Long Island over all the leading competition including terrestrial radio for four consecutive years. In 2019 GHR was nominated and voted winners in three categories... Best Radio Station on Long Island, as well as GHR's Brimstone winning Best Twitter account from Long Island and Best Long Island Personality over Billy Joel, Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin for the 2nd consecutive year. It should also be noted that GHR's Kim Adragna was nominated for the Personality Award. Furthermore, GHR was announced as a 2018 SCORE American Small Business Awards Champion and National Grand Champion - prompting a Certificate of Recognition from NY Mayor DeBlasio. The Grindhouse Radio was awarded the 2020 New York State Senate Empire Business Award in recognition of their repeated contributions to the community and New York State followed by a 2021 Platinum Communitas Award for Excellence in Corporate Responsibility | Making a Difference and Brimstone awarded for Excellence in Community Service | Leadership in Individual Community Service. In 2021, GHR was awarded a Gold AVA Digital Award for Audio Production / Radio Podcast, a Gold Award of Excellence | Individual Episodes, Entertainment Podcast​ for the 27th Annual Communicator Awards, Vega Digital 'Centauri' Award for Best Podcast Series, and an NYX Marcom Gold Award for Audio & Podcast. On social media, GHR branded GIFs have been used over 900 million times via their official Giphy account. Notably, Adragna has been named a recipient of the Long Island Business News', 30 Under 30 Award 2019 and Grindhouse Radio was a major topic of discussion at the European Planetary Science Congress 2018 - officially making them a citable source for scientific and collegiate papers.

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