The main purpose of this blog is to show the different stereotypes women are portrayed as throughout various sports. Being that I am a HUGE baseball fan (FACT: I have not missed a Padres home game for 3 years) I thought baseball would be most appropriate. As I started brainstorming what I would write about, I came across a problem.... I realized "There really are NO females in baseball!"
With a total of 30 major league baseball teams (14 AL and 16 NL; not to mention the dozens of minor league teams) there are no teams that have a female baseball player. Why is this? I will admit that genetically, females do generally lack the physical attributes to play at the pro level but I am sure with proper training, there has to have been at least a handful who COULD have played with the guys... So why is this?
June 23, 1952 marks the day where all females were banned from the major and minor leagues. Although this ban, which is still effective today, prohibits all females from playing in the major and minor leagues, it does not stop them from participating in baseball teams at the college level or leagues apart of Independent Professional Baseball or Continental Leagues.
All in all, I think it is quite tragic that females are banned from playing in MLB and MiLB. Walt Whitman would say, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." Why should this limit players according to gender. Clearly race has never been an issue as teams scout players from dozens of Latin American countries daily. Like men, women who have equal talent and love for the game and are willing to live, eat, sleep, and sweat baseball, CAN play baseball with the men at the professional level.
i appreciate this article. i mean if we have women running for president soon, maybe someday the ban to let women play baseball will be lifted eventually.
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