Female Baseball Players

Welcome back TR!

Case closed?
Ummmmmmmmmmmmm,...pardon moi, but I don't think so.

I have a daughter who wants to play baseball, NOT softball.
Why are there no girls baseball teams? If there are no baseball teams for girls,..then I say may the best athlete win a spot on the baseball roster.

If a boy wants to play softball, dont see why he shouldnt be allowed to. If boys want to start a all male softball league,..I say go for it.


There are girls s****r teams, swim teams, tennis teams, wrestling teams, basketball teams, golf teams, volleyball teams, la cross, ( need to take a breath ) track teams, rifle, cross country, field hockey, gymnastics, water polo, canoe teams, surf team,...you name it, they have it.

But no baseball team,...I scream NO FAIR!!!!!

I think there should be girls baseball teams/leagues.
My daughter will be first in line to sign up!..and if there are no leagues,....watch out dudes,...I have a 5'9 13 year old, who can bat like a mad dog, run like the wind,..and isnt afraid of getting her ponytail ribbon dirty.

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Originally posted by shortstopmom:
I have a 5'9 13 year old, who can bat like a mad dog, run like the wind ...

She's probably close to being done growing while most boys are just starting to grow. This age is where the boys start taking over physically.

I have to agree with our new member who seems to be very intrested in girl's softball.

In LL there was a girl who played in the league. The boys loved her, but not sure they loved having her play with them. She could hit, she was stronger than they were at 11,12,13.
I've always taught son to be kind, polite and gentle to females and this didn't fit the mold for him, he felt ucomfortable when he was up against her.

I have to agree with TR, no way do I want a girl playing on son's HS team. I am definetly into equal rights for woman, but this is the time son began to seriously think about the next level, to learn to be competitive on the mound and I just can't see him doing that with a female at the plate.

JMO.

My sons took some lessons at a baseball academy in a Chicago suburb a few years ago. We spoke with one of the employees, a college graduate who had played baseball in college. In the course of one of our conversations, we discovered that he played a game against the female pitcher. He told us that she wasn't very overpowering, but she could hit her spots. She struck out a bunch of hitters....and of course, they couldn't believe it. They were very embarrassed. She was a freshman---and it was her first win.

shortstopmom--If you click on the link that I posted on page one, you will see that it links to the American Women's Baseball Federation. You will discover that there are actually a number of girls who do play baseball. Perhaps they can help your daughter find a team.

I believe in everyone's right to try, regardless of race, gender, heighth, weight, or the color of their pet poodle.

IMHO, everyone deserves a chance.
I would like to see doors staying open and opportunities abundant.

Oh by the way, the game of fast pitch softball is quite different from baseball.

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Originally posted by shortstopmom:
I believe in everyone's right to try, regardless of race, gender, heighth, weight, or the color of their pet poodle.

IMHO, everyone deserves a chance.
I would like to see doors staying open and opportunities abundant.

I understand and agree. Don't think it's just a mom of a male talking, I have a female too, she didn't play a sport but was a serios dancer working towards a professional opportunity. She was more athletic than her brother.

If opportunities were available for woman in the sport of baseball, football, I say go for it, but they are not and somehow IMO, it changes the game with a HS female on the field, and in other areas, even though I don't see much playing time.

A coaches job is to put teh best 9 on the field, can you just see if she was better than them, the parents complaining about lack of playing time.

I've often thought about a Boy's Softball team in HS.
Boy's That stop playing baseball, Are they just aren't quite good enough to make the Baseball team.
Don't get a chance to play much until after HS in the Men's league. Thats 4 years of no Baseball/softball for these guy's.
Fastpitch or Slow Pitch??
Just a thought.
EH

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She was more athletic than her brother.

I can relate!

Here's another sport thats tough on boys at age up thru HS.
Girl Wrestler's.
There some of the most ferocious competiter's out there.
When they put that headgear on. It's Scary sometime's??
EH

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Originally posted by shortstopmom:

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She was more athletic than her brother.

I can relate!

Wait don't get me wrong, he was athletic, just that she was in better condition than he was at an earlier age but after puberty set in, she became a bit "softer" around the edges.

Shortstop Mom;

you maybe interested in the Northern California Women's Baseball League http://www.cwbl.net/

We are discussing a International trip to Australia. There is a very serious Woman's baseball program at the National level in Australia.

Many years ago, I played against the "All Star" team from the professional Woman's baseball league. The real "Dottie" was on this team and played left field. No, I am not Tom Hanks.

Our pitcher and catcher pitched for the lady's and their pitcher and catcher joined our team.
The game was played in Valentine, Nebraska and we split the admissions.

Bob Williams

when i coached LL i had three girls in 5 yrs. all pretty good. none played after that for varying reasons. puberty being one. boys grew bigger and stronger while the girls grew into young woman. while there are exceptions to everything. for the most part it is the norm.
this is why they started tittle 9. so girls had more of their own sports or the same as the men. and that is why our state university decided to drop baseball,golf and a few other non revinue mens sports to be on parr with the woman. and that still bothers me.
i remember a few years ago a group of boys( or their parents), decided if girls could play LL baseball they could play LL softball. i don't remember how it played out . does any one remember this?

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Originally posted by Tiger Paw Mom:
I have to agree with our new member who seems to be very intrested in girl's softball.

I'm not sure what a guffaw is, but I think I just had one.

Anybody remember the Silver Bullets from the mid-90's?

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by BW: you maybe interested in the Northern California Women's Baseball League
We are discussing a International trip to Australia.

just wondering how many girls have played on your regular (male) Goodwill international teams?

and, since 1987 how many girls on Area Code rosters?

Tiger Paw Mom,
I agree with everything you have said on this post.

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Originally posted by P1tickethead110:

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Originally posted by Dear old Dad:
If softball is available then she should play that and not take a spot on the team away from a guy.

This is not a talent issue at all. It is about equal opportunity to participate.

If the guy can't win the spot over a girl then he probably would be riding the pine all season anyway.

You misinterpreted my post. My point is that if softball is available for girls then they should be ineligible for baseball. And boys should be ineligible for softball.

The people who beleive a girl should be able to play baseball even if there is a softball team available are being myopic about the ramifications of such a policy.

A high school that would allow free participation of all sports for either gender would be a disaster. All it would take is about five or six of the best boys on the baseball team who are disgruntled with the baseball coach to show up at the first softball tryout. That would put more than half the starting girls on the bench and force the softball coach to cut some girls who couldn't possibly play baseball.

Free participation would virtually eliminate girls track and field, girls s****r, girls tennis and many other sports that are kept gender specific.

My daughter made the varsity s****r team as a sophmore and is now starting as a junior. But she, like the rest of the girls on the team, would have no chance of making the boys s****r team. The difference between the boys and girls teams is not about the talent. It is about the speed of the game.


I remember the Silver Bullets women's baseball team. They got great support. Their games on TV and great sponsorship. Their first game was against a minor league team and they got destroyed. They then started playing college teams but were still not competitive. They finally won a game against an over 35 mens team made up of overweight guys who were funny to watch but not very good.

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Originally posted by infidel_08:

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Originally posted by Tiger Paw Mom:
I have to agree with our new member who seems to be very intrested in girl's softball.

I'm not sure what a guffaw is, but I think I just had one.