Sarah

Sarah Schorno founded Playing the Field as a way to feature some of the great female sports writers in the blogosphere. As a lifelong sports fan, she passionately roots for the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. A former New Yorker and recent Washington DC transplant, she has adopted the Wizards to satisfy her need to root for at least one home team. Sarah began her blogging career with the now defunct Strike Zones and End Zones and is a regular contributor to Deadspin and the Huffington Post . Her work can also be seen at Babes Love Baseball.

Sooze

Sooze likes many a thing, including but not limited to, baseball, her ladies, baseball, Chinese food, blogging, juggling, coffee, records, poetry, comics, college sports of every variety, changeups, anticipation, golf, chocolate, her Canadian crusher, fist fights, smoking, laughing, the great outdoors, movies, rocking out, Bill Murray, MMA, change, pictures, and stuff.

J-Money

J-Money is a writer and comic who looks forward to a time when she won't have a day job that requires a name tag. She continues to tour clubs and colleges in cities that end in -ville and has proudly entertained our troops with Armed Forces Entertainment.

Melissa

Pitched four years for the Philadelphia Athletics, and then played shortstop for seven years for the Montreal Expos. Taught Rickey Henderson to steal a base. Taught Nolan Ryan to throw a punch. Taught Mickey Mantle to drink a beer. Threw one seven-hitter and seven no-hitters. Wonderboy was her creation, and first Jobu shrine was in her locker. Often called "the next Jed Lowrie". Always wears high socks and eyeblack. Prefers to slide headfirst.  Born & raised in Texas, lives in Boston. Obsessed with Texas Longhorn football and fanatical about the Boston Red Sox .  

Amy

Amy Lamare is Your Gridiron Goddess. She is a Las Vegas based writer and fanatical USC Trojan fan. She was born in Chicago, and claims as her birthright her love for Da Bears, The Cubbies, Da Bulls and even the White Sox. She went to the University of Southern California where she didn't miss a single home football game in her undergraduate career.

Holly

Holly is a Southern-born writer and digital film editor now based in Los Angeles. A founding editor of Ladies..., her writing has also appeared on Deadspin and, memorably, Kissing Suzy Kolber. She is currently a staff writer for Every Day Should Be Saturday and blogs daily on movies, football, and the quest for sweet tea on the west coast at her romper room, Snarkastic.

Lizzy

Lizzy is a Red Sox/Patriots fan living in enemy territory. She's been booed at Yankee Stadium several times, usually just for breathing. On top of being world's laziest blogger, Lizzy is also a writer/editor for a New York City newspaper, which assists her in keeping a roof over her head and keeping the cabinet stocked with macaroni and cheese.

Amanda

Amanda writes the blog Red Hot Mama, a forum for light-hearted and irreverent commentary on NLC baseball. Her involvement with Red Hot Mama has made her a better, more educated fan. It�s opened doors to get to interview players, appear on a Cincinnati sports program, and be featured on a scoreboard segment. And, most importantly, it�s introduced her to some great friends that I never would have met otherwise.

Miss Chatter

Miss Chatter was unwittingly sucked into the baseball world when the Washington Nationals took up residence in RFK in 2005. From sneaking her way into team events (both on and off the field), she gradually gained more access and real honest-to-goodness invitations, despite not being "real" media. Just A Nats Fan evolved into a multimedia site in order to remain unique among the highly populated and growing Natosphere. Along the way of providing game photos to fans who were caught in the "No Televised Games" snafu of the inaugural season, she discovered she loves the challenge of sports photography and producing mostly corny but occasionally good YouTube videos.

TheStarterWife

TheStarterWife was born in Denver, raised in Pittsburgh, and like thousands of other 20- and 30-somethings before her, fled the Three Rivers as soon as she realized she had run out of career and dating options. From New York to South Florida to Los Angeles, being a fan of all things Black and Gold meant she could always find a pocket of other displaced Pittsburghers and a local bar to call home. Currently TheStarterWife works in the music industry and writes about sports because waiting for the Buccos to break .500 is less painful than completing a screenplay.

Clare

Clare is a Philadelphia native. She writes Plunk Chutley. At age 12, the first team she ever followed with any seriousness were the 1993 Phillies. This explains why some of her formative erotic yearnings involve mullets and Tourette's Syndrome, and why she remains to this day a Curt Schilling apologist.

Nola

Have you ever been to a Saints game in the Dome and saw a slightly drunk girl screaming at a 300 pound Left Tackle who missed a block? If she was really cute, it was Nola Chick.

Andrea

Andrea is a 26 year-old soon-to-be law school graduate who has no intention of practicing law and therefore just has another piece of paper to hang on the wall. She is trying to work in sports but will most likely end up tending bar at Mulligan's back in her hometown. Things she likes to a frightening degree: St. Louis Cardinals, Iowa Hawkeyes, Notre Dame, diet coke, a good steak, and her family and friends. Things she hates to a frightening degree: tomatoes, running, the Chicago Cubs, Iowa State, and people who stop setting their fantasy sports line-ups thus letting their opponents walk all over them and snatch victory out of her hands.

Natalie

Natalie Sitto started www.Need4Sheed.com, a Detroit Pistons NBA blog featuring news, videos, original wallpapers, screensavers, back when blogging was in its infancy. In fact she didn't really set out to blog, instead she just waned to share her Pistons themed artwork with friends across the country. Not only has its popularity been growing with fans, some of The Pistons players themselves have become readers.