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Why can't woman play with guys in baseball (in the major league)?

• Some sports, woman just shouldn't play with guys (like football). But why baseball? I mean softball is the same (well how the throw and the ball and stuff), but the thing is I LOVE to ply baseball, but NOT softball. Softball is for wimps (no offense), and I'm wondering why they felt the need to split the girls and the guys? It's like they don't think woman equally, or they don't think they could stand playing with guys. Which is crazy. I mean common, if a girl can't stand to play with guys, they can play softball. :p But I just don't want to be FORCED to play softball just 'cause I'm a girl.

• Answer:

  There is one reason and one reason only why women don't play baseball with men. And it's the same reason why, despite the fact that there are many professional basketball leagues, there has never been a woman player in the NBA, or why, despite the fact that women play soccer at an international level, a woman has never competed in the World Cup, or why the couple of times a woman has played in a men's professional golf tournament they have done poorly. Women, as a whole, are simply not as athletic as men. That is not to say that all men are more athletic as all women (I will readily admit that I couldn't beat a WNBA player in a game of one-on-one, nor could I beat an LPGA player in a round of golf, and I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't stand a chance on a tennis court against either of the Williams sisters). And that is not to say that perhaps, somewhere down the road, a woman might make it to the NBA, MLB or any other male sport. However, there are cases of young ladies playing baseball - most LIttle Leagues allow the girls to play if they are good enough, and I know there have been girls who have played high school ball (the high school I played at had a female player a few years ago) and there have been women who played college baseball as well. (look up the names Julie Croteau, Ila Borders and Jodi Haller) And Eri Yoshida from Japan has played pro ball in the USA as well. Note that NONE of these women were able to be anything more than mediocre against even low level male talent. Even the Silver Bullets, a woman's barnstorming from the 1990's, supposedly made up of the "best" women baseball players, had a tough time beating semi-pro men's teams. There are places for young women to play the game. Yes, it is more common for females to play softball. But it is not impossible for those young women to play hardball if they so choose. (And if they are good enough to do so, I'm all for it) But I have to wonder - does it bother you that a high school aged boy in the USA can't play softball if he so chooses? Quick note for the person who mentioned the N-e-g-r-o leagues. There is a tremendous difference between a race of people who ARE talented enough to play in the majors being denied that opportunity solely based in their race than women not being good enough to play. Believe me, if a woman comes along who can either throw a ball 95 mph or hit that 95 mph pitch 400 feet, she will be playing pro ball.