OAKVILLE — Addie Frank never flinched.

The Oakville High senior softball infielder remembers playing baseball with older brother Joey when she was in second grade.

Joey, five years older, would drill ground balls as hard as he could to little sis in an effort to sharpen her fielding skills.

One such rocket took a wicked hop and smacked Addie right in the head, and little Addie simply retrieved the ball and continued the practice session.

"Didn't hurt that bad," Addie recalled. "We just kept going and he kept hitting them at me."

Those sessions have paid dividends.

Addie Frank has developed into one of the top female baseball players in the Midwest.

Yes, baseball.

Frank was selected as one of 150 players from around the country to be eligible to play in the new Women's Professional

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