When America entered into World War II, several major league baseball executives started a new

The All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League was founded by Phillip K. Wrigley. It was in existence from 1943-1954, and was started to keep the

The All American Girl’s Professional Baseball League both challenged and reinforced traditional women’s roles. The AAGPBL only lasted for eleven years, but its effects are not forgotten. Towards the beginnings of the lead, along with the influential leaders, the players were the ones to make it famous. The AAGPBL made women athletics a possibility today and helped America to emerge to why women athletes are necessary. After the men returned from war, the league began to decline and the women were eventually forced back into being housewives and back into the households.

A scout from the a All-American Girls Professional Baseball League saw me practicing and persuaded me to tryout in Chicago in 1942. The league was formed because the men were all off at war and they needed women to play to keep sales going.

The movie shows a time when people only considered men to be able to play baseball professionally and that there was no place for women in the sport at that level. It attempts to shed some light on the kind of hardships women had to get through during that era in order to be seen as an equal in sports and in that it is a successful movie. It helps that the movie is based in spirit around real history from the time. I can fully recommend A League of Their Own as an entertaining and informative movie.

Before we told our daughters that they could be anyone, or anything they wanted to be, we told them that they could only be what was acceptable for women to be, and that they could only do things that were considered "ladylike." It was at this time, when the nation was frenzied with the business of war, that the women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League decided that they could do and be whatever it was that they chose. These women broke free of the limitations that their family and society had set for them, and publicly broke into what had been an exclusively male sport up until that time.

In the 1940s during World War II the Chicago Cubs owner, Phillip K. Wrigley arranged the U.S’s very first women’s professional baseball league. Some men were leaving the teams to go attend the Army and Navy to help end World War II. Phillip was worried that the president, Franklin D. Roosevelt would cancel Major League Baseball (MLB) until the war was over, and fans would permanently become disinterested with the game. So as a substitute he created the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Phillip then organized tryouts, and they were held in May of 1943. The Cubs baseballs scouts invited 280 women to contend for a position on the teams, 60 of the women made a team. But before they could play they were sent to charm school,

Continuing to brain wash the young men today with the “sports is a mans world” mentality only helps to repeat the cycle of nearly oppressing women in the industry. It keeps men feeling secure when it comes to their masculinity, yet making a woman’s fight for respect a never ending struggle.

While the whole film ‘A League of Their Own’ can be seen as a feminist film, the following is one of many scenes that stuck out to me when thinking as a feminist. In the scene, a baseball official reveals the uniforms that the women are required to wear while playing. The sexualized uniform is a very short, flared dress/skirt. Several of the women object the uniforms and make comments such as “that’s not a baseball uniform” and “what do you think we are, baseball players or ballerinas?” The official simply replied back by saying if the women did not want to wear the uniforms, then they would not be playing in the league.

The article “Who Gets to Call the game?” by Doug Glanville covers a wide array of subjects with its overall message being on whether Jessica Mendoza or females in general especially those of color were given validity or even accepted by males to commentate on baseball games. Doug Glanville makes numerous points as to why women such as Jessica Mendoza do have the validity however they are not accepted by most men as Jessica could not start a sentence with “When I played for the Chicago Cubs...”, or how Jessica knows nothing and it would be like watching a game with a girlfriend who has no idea what was going on, women being given awards on baseball journalism, and how men who never played the game weren’t judged as harshly. A lot of men may feel that since Jessica mendoza or another female would not have much validity or be able to speak on a team’s actions whether during a game or off the field as she never played baseball and having no firsthand experience albeit the fact that she has numerous medals from the olympics in softball. Social media could most likely be responsible or at least contributing to the stigma that females don’t know what’s going on during a sports game or how the don’t understand how the game works. Glanville appears to be trying rather

This past week at All-Star game fanfest the All-Star caliber talent wasn't just on the field. A panel of baseball minds sat down to discuss baseball gender diversity. The panel was led by mostly women in the industry, including several front offices. The women discussed the challenges that women still face in a male dominated industry. The panel was hosted by Kim Ng. For those of you that don't know her, she has forged a path for women in America's pasttime.

Introduction- While men all over the country were deeply involved in WWII; major league baseball owners were beginning to worry about the future of baseball, which soon created the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

In this period in history, men tended to think women were just the ones who stayed at home cooking and cleaning all day. This movie does a great job at portraying women as much more than sit at home housewives. Baseball has always been considered “America’s pastime” and still to this day holds that name. It is thought of as a masculine sport such as football or hockey. This film contests these stereotypes and shows that women can be just as athletic in baseball as men are.

In the film A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall features two main heroines Dottie and her sister Kit joining the league and meeting new people like Mae, Doris, and the other girls all wanting to play baseball but they must influence their manager Jimmy and the audience of the games that women can play baseball and that it’s worth something to look at even if the players are women. The women play in short skirts and must take classes on etiquette, but they play like any other male league. They are hitting balls, sliding, running, and catching showing everyone they can play. They are getting exhausted, dirty and bruised with each game they play and are exceeding everybody’s doubts on Dottie’s team.

Sexism is a highly controversial topic, no matter the application. Throw it into American sports? We might just have a scandal worthy enough to make it to the back page in a crummy tabloid. I’m not saying it’s an unimportant issue, any amount of sexism anywhere is a major problem, I’m just saying it won’t be making the front page anytime soon. Why isn’t sexism in sports making front page news?

Girls had some tough impacts throughout a change of women's being allowed to play what men took pride in, that this inspired girls to try in and be that one person in doing something