Women's pro baseball comes home to Illinois, paving the way for next generation of ballplayers

Seven years ago, 11-year-old Amira Hondras made a list of goals for her baseball career. The biggest among them was making the women's national team and playing professionally. Around then, she competed at Rivets Stadium in Rockford in the Baseball for All national tournament, which hosts an annual international youth girls’ baseball contest for ages eight to 18. She returned to Rivets last weekend, this time on the roster of the U.S. national women's baseball team, which closed out the…