UConn Magazine: Nine Innings with a Baseball Legend

Nine facts about Judy Walden Scarafile, best known for her six-decade tenure with the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League

A blue scoreboard with Judy Walden Scarafile Field written at the top in orange lettering

(Photo courtesy of Joseph F. Cavanaugh III)

Judy Walden Scarafile ’71 (CLAS) remembers being at a party years ago where the guests were posed a question: What do you fear in life? A common response was being left alone, without a partner or friends to share experiences with. Her answer: “I don’t ever want to be bored.”

Scarafile is perhaps best known for her six-decade tenure with the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League, which includes 24 years as president. In 2003, she was the first woman inducted into its Hall of Fame.

But baseball is just one of the many bases Scarafile has rounded in her wide-ranging, anything-but-boring career of public service, health care, and humanitarian philanthropy. Let’s play nine innings with one remarkable woman.

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