Betty Caywood

Betty Caywood was one of the first female Major League Baseball broadcasters, providing color commentary on broadcasts for the Kansas City Athletics in September, 1964.

Caywood had previously worked as a weather reporter on a Chicago television station. On September 16, 1964, Caywood was hired by Athletics' owner Charles Finley to provide a female perspective on the games. [Finley Signs Woman As KC Broadcaster. Fresno Bee Republican, September 17, 1964.] Caywood provided color commentary while Merle Harmon and George Bryson provided the play by play. [Finley Signs Woman As KC Broadcaster. Fresno Bee Republican, September 17, 1964.] She did not return to the broadcasts in 1965.

Caywood was born in Chicago, grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Marymount College in Salina, Kansas. She later earned a Master's degree in speech therapy from Northwestern University. [Babe Invades Boyland. Gary Pauley. Fresno Bee Republican, September 29, 1964.]

Caywood, now known as Betty Caywood Buschman, returned to the baseball broadcast booth on August 16, 2008, joining the WHB radio broadcast of the Kansas City T-Bones game. [http://www.tbonesbaseball.com/news/headline/index.html?article_id=1313] The Kansas City T-Bones are an Independent baseball team.

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