Dottie Collins, a star pitcher in women's professional baseball in the 1940s, died Tuesday in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was 84. In the summer of 1948, she pitched until she was four months pregnant. Ms. Collins won more than 20 games in each of her first four seasons and threw 17 shutouts. Memorabilia from her…

Cool dad, cool Halloween costume: "In an age when young girls are taught to use their bodies for showing off or are offered costumes designed to illustrate what they look like instead of what they can do, my daughter was going to learn about using a body for fielding, for hitting, for throwing out a runner at home…