Before Title IX forced schools to offer women’s sports, female athletes had to look...
As the 2022 baseball season winds down, a new streaming series about the World War II women’s professional league has been released. “A League of Their Own” provides a deeper and more modern take on the subject than the 1992 film that bears the same title.
The good news? Kitten ball was mercifully renamed diamond ball — and then softball. The bad news? Physical education leaders of the era discouraged any activity they considered unladylike. Few had fond feelings about these leagues. Said one, according to historian Mary Jo Festle, “I don’t think the world needs highly aggressive, competitive, tough-minded women.”
Those lucky and talented enough to make the league competed under rules that incorporated some aspects of baseball and softball. Two players were from San Antonio. While the AAGPBL continued to draw fans after the war, the experiment ended in 1954, partly a victim of decentralization and overexpansion. Major League Baseball banned women’s contracts, and the players were banished to the sidelines. Three decades after its demise, the league was memorialized with a permanent exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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