Nippon Professional Baseball

“I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” - Pete Rose, one of the greatest players to ever step foot on a baseball field, couldn't have said it better. I would do anything to play baseball because to me it’s just the most important thing in life. One of the most influential people in my life is my Grandma. She is always telling me how great of a young man I am and how she always has faith in what i'm doing. She has also taught me many lessons about being a better person. This

Though being athletic and masculine have been a man’s physical description, women have fought to prove those gender stereotypes wrong. Women have been defeating the odds of athleticism and masculinity that men realized, but wanted to hide and not appreciate their work. Through time men and women have made an effort to come together to bring attention to the downgrading of women in sports to earn acknowledgement and respect. With this, history has described men and women’s sports as not equal but

not equal, however, I argue that the greatest change of mind was not created by the women working in the factories, but by the women who were elected to substitute in to keep the game of baseball afloat. The female athletes who played baseball during World War II were brought in as a last resort to save baseball, forced to fulfill stereotypes, and taught how to act, but were still persevered through all of those strikes

Gender Inequality To this day, gender inequality still exists across the world. While it squeezes itself into our society, four mainly focus on the true aspects on what it is like to experience such inequality. For example, women in the work force, the family life, the state, and sexes can lead to all forms of discrimination. Did the screenwriters correctly portray what women back then suffered from? Director, Penny Marshall’s, A League of Their Own, demonstrates a taste of what women during the

The mens baseball league was in trouble when World War II started. The fans of baseball and citizens of the U.S. Did not like the idea of men getting paid to play baseball while loved ones sent to war so a certain Philip Wrigley owner of wrigleys gum and the Chicago cubs didn't think baseball would last. Shortly after Pearl Harbor got bombed by the Japanese and most of the male players went off to serve our country. The league owner wanted to end baseball but president Franklin Delano Roosevelt

league to entertain baseball fans while many of the men were away fighting WWII. What began as a softball league transformed to baseball league that eventually became known as the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The league was designed with fifteen teams made up of twenty to twenty-five women spread out across America. The league existed for twelve years, from 1943 to 1954. This was a period of time when women were not supposed to have professional careers outside of the

is rude with his remarks. In one scene, Evelyn performs a wrong play, which Jimmy starts yelling at her as she is walking towards the dugout. Evelyn begins to cry as Jimmy is yelling at her and responses with his famous line “There’s no crying in baseball!”. In the world, we see different types of families whether its blend, nuclear, extended, single

begins in the small farm town where they work at the dairy and play ball for fun. During a game, a recruiter takes notice of Dottie, then from there, Dottie and Kit’s baseball career takes off. Their upward progression proves that anything is possible. Tensions run high between sisters Dottie and Kit. Kit hates how good Dottie is at baseball and does not believe that Dottie wants to even be on the team. All the while, Dottie does not understand Kit’s frustration. Dottie tells Mr. Lowenstein she is leaving

sports nowadays compared to even twenty years ago is staggering, and the number just keeps rising. All the women athletes of today have people and events from past generations that inspired them like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the All-American Professional Girls Baseball League, Billie Jean King, and the 1999 United States Women’s World Cup

and gives them an opportunity to make friendships that will last them their whole lives, as well. To understand how softball benefits people, it would be easier if we knew a little history. You probably think it's simple: “Softball is just women's baseball.” That, however, is not entirely the case. In fact, softball was actually created as the product of a football game. In November of 1887, a group of friends sat at the Farragut Boat Club in