TOLEDO—The Toledo Diocesan Council of Catholic Women’s fall conference Oct. 8 features Sister of the Holy Spirit Mary Assumpta, also known as Cleveland’s “Sports Nun.”

The program begins with registration and continental breakfast at 8 a.m. at Toledo Rosary Cathedral’s Msgr. Schmitt Hall. Sr. Assumpta is to speak on the topic, “Gifts My Mother Gave Me: Meditations on Prayer, Vocation, Death and, of course, Baseball!”

Sr. Assumpta is the fun-loving Cleveland Indians fan who baked more than 300 dozen cookies annually for Indians players. She talked her way into the Cleveland Indians clubhouse, won a three-year stint on local TV doing color commentary on the team and served two times as a features reporter for CBS broadcasts of the World Series.

She appeared in the Hollywood film Major League. People magazine wrote an article on her in 1997 and she is featured on an Upper Deck Trading Card.

Her 20-year term in office as superior of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit resulted in tremendous growth on the campus of Jennings Center for Older Adults in Garfield Heights.

She is now regional representative of the Sacred Art of Living Center, covering the area east of the Mississippi, working from her motherhouse in Cleveland, while teaching programs on “the sacred art of living and dying.”

The conference also includes a mini-tour of the cathedral, lunch, awards and a raffle.

The cost is $25 per person. For reservations, call 419-244-6711, ext. 516 before Sept. 30.