35 under 35: On the mound and in the commissioner’s office, Elizabeth Benn brings the intensity
NEW YORK — When Elizabeth Benn first started pitching in the New York Metro Baseball League, an amateur collective for former college players and weekend warriors, an opposing batter would step into the box and laugh. Just like that. Happened all the time. Some guys smiled. Some looked ... uncomfortable. Some just hurled thinly veiled, sarcastic remarks from the bench. The best reactions, however, came when the at-bats were over. This was after Benn had spun her breaking ball