Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and ...

larger ball and underhand pitching style -- aspects deemed suitable for the supposedly weaker and more delicate female body. The passage of Title IX in 1972 further pushed the popularization of ...

Girls funneled into softball ... style – aspects deemed suitable for the supposedly weaker and more delicate female body. The passage of Title IX in 1972 further pushed the popularization of ...

For most baseball fans, hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Many of those fans -- more than you might think --are women. The number of women working professionally in baseball also has grown.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Callie Maddox, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) For most baseball fans, hope ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For most baseball fans, hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Many of those fans – more than you might think – are women. The number of women working professionally in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For most baseball fans, hope springs eternal on Opening Day. The number of women working professionally in baseball has also grown. Kim Ng made history in 2020 when she became ...

Kim Wilson is in a club all by herself. The Rowan University head softball coach earned her 1,000 th career win, becoming the ...

Girls and women, on the other hand, are supposed to play softball, which uses a bigger ball and has a smaller field. It wasn’t always this way. Women have been playing baseball in the U.S. since ...