VISTA – In most Little League circles, hearing someone say you throw like a girl could be construed as an insult.
Not so at Rancho Buena Vista Little League, in which 12-year-old Jacqueline Kane throws heat just like the boys —- even better than them, in some cases.
Jacqueline Kane, 12, who plays for the RBV Little League Indians, delivers a pitch against the Reds during a recent game. Photo by Waldo Nilo – Staff photographer - North County Times
‘She doesn’t throw like a girl,’ said Reds coach Marty Miller, who led the Rancho Buena Vista all-stars to the 2005 Little League World Series and coaches against Kane’s Indians. ‘She throws like a boy.’
The fact that she is the only girl in RBV’s majors division doesn’t bother Kane, who, at 5-foot-7, is one of the tallest players in the league.
‘I don’t really see it as boys and girls’ she said. ‘It’s just kids playing baseball…”
