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A young baseball fan's perfect pitch

Eleven-year-old Ellee Dowdy, from Amherst, Virginia, eats, sleeps and talks baseball. But she didn't know girls could pursue a broadcasting career doing play-by-play until she listened to a Baltimore Orioles game called by announcer Melanie Newman – part of the first all-female broadcast crew in history last year. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on what happened when a young girl reached out to a pioneer.
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