Helen Rollason Helen Rollason Helen Frances Rollason, MBE ("née" Grindley: 11 March 1956 – 9 August 1999) was a British sports journalist and television presenter, who in 1990 became the first female presenter of the BBC's sports programme "Grandstand". She was also a regular presenter of "Sport on Friday", and of the children's programme "Newsround" during the 1980s. Born in London, Rollason studied to become a PE teacher before entering radio broadcasting in 1980. After directing sport related content for Channel 4, where she helped to bring American football to British television, she anchored coverage of the 1987 World Student Games and
Shulthis Stadium Grandstand and there is a myth that the ball landed 600 feet away on Monkey Island. Burleigh Grimes, the famous spitball pitcher, was a manager for the Independence Yankees. The Independence Yankees were a Class D minor league team affiliated with the New York Yankees. One of the most famous visiting players was Satchel Paige, who pitched for the Harlem Globetrotters at the stadium in 1954. Other visiting teams included the House of David, Kansas City Monarchs, and the Memphis Red Sox. The Kansas Preservation Alliance had listed the grandstand on their endangered places in 2014. On August 8, 2015 the