Baseball team salutes pregnancy

NEW YORK, July 20 (UPI) -- Expectant moms were the center of attention at New York's Brooklyn Cyclones' win over the somewhat confused Auburn, N.Y., Doubledays, observers said.

The team promoted Sunday night's game as "Bellies and Baseball: A Salute to Pregnancy Night," which involved pregnant women rounding the bases, throwing out the first pitch and singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the "seventh-inning stretch marks," the New York Daily News reported Monday.

Among the expectant mothers in the crowd was Nicole Bartos, 30, who was experiencing labor pains and said her water might break during the game.

Diane Haussermann, 25, who is due to give birth Sept. 16, threw out the game's first pitch.

Among the festivities before the game, which the Cyclones won 2-1, was a Lamaze class in the middle of KeySpan Park that drew confused looks from the visitor's dugout, the Daily News said.