In 1982 Marybeth Mann, playing for the Little League Baseball defending champions (Tigers), became the first girl ever to get a hit in Little League.

Later she burst onto the  Warren High School athletic scene as a co-captain of the 1986 girls soccer team and eventually earned first team All Class honors in soccer, basketball, and slow-pitch softball.

In her senior soccer season she was named first team All Suburban East fullback.  Then during that winter she led the basketball Lady Redskins to a 19-0 regular season championship, as well as the Class C tournament title, where they topped Hope in the finals.  As an example of what she brought to the team, she tallied fifteen of the team’s first twenty-three points in a win over Bishop Keough.  In recognition of her efforts, Marybeth was named first team All Class C.

Her amazing season came to a close when the Lady Redskins shared the 1988 Class B South Slow-Pitch Softball Co-Championship with South Kingstown.  After recording three hits against Tolman,  St. Xavier, Westerly, and Tolman again and four or more runs batted in versus Prout, St. Xavier, Westerly, and Moses Brown, Marybeth was named a first team All Class B South infielder.

Elected the Most Athletic girl in the Warren High Class of 1988, she then enrolled at the Community College of Rhode Island, where she played both basketball and softball.

Marybeth is currently the playing president of the Coventry, Rhode Island Women's Softball League.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives