Sylvia Pressler had a trailblazing ruling in 1973 which opened Little League baseball to girls. While serving as a hearings examiner with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, she ruled that a 12 year old girl should have been allowed to play on a Little League team.
Her ruling was protested by the organization, but upheld on appeal. New Jersey became the first state to prohibit sex bias in Little League. The following year, Little League amended its charter to allow girls and created a softball division.
Ms Pressler,75, died of lymphoma on February 15, 2010 at her home in Sparta, NJ.
She earned her law degree from Rutgers in 1959 and was one of the first women in the state to clerk for an appellate judge.
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