Emma Span has an editorial in the New York Times noting that, despite what most people think, softball is not “women’s baseball.” It’s a totally different sport and that women can and should be playing baseball in greater numbers. They’re not, though, and after walking through the history of women and girls in baseball and the misinterpretation of the two sports and, in some cases, Title IX, she concludes:
It is rather nuts that there aren’t women’s baseball teams in high school and college. It’s even more nuts to think that the same women who excel in softball, basketball and other sports wouldn’t do the same thing in baseball.
A good, thought-provoking read.