Major League Baseball made a significant statement in 1947 – albeit overdue – when Brooklyn Dodgers Jackie Robinson promoted.
Everyone has the chance to play.
The MLB partnership recently announced that the unlimited softball league of the aspiring athletes is not a lib repetition of Robinson’s modern breed integration. An initiative for professional softball makes no way for MLBS first female ball players. Not literally tomorrow.
But Jackie’s message – that everyone should get the chance to play – rings loudly with the coming of the out. And it is because the league is supported by MLB.
MLB not only shares its prosperity, infrastructure and its gravitas to support the softball of Professional women, but the former league manager Kim NG is the first commissioner of the Aus. She was the first woman who was a manager with the Miami Marlins MLB general manager as a MLB general manager.
If the softball of women works as other pro -league work, this is the beginning of how it will happen.
The most famous historical example of ball players of professional women comes from another company that is supported by MLB – or at least one of his owners. Philip K. Wrigley, owner of Chicago Cubs, founded the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which played from 1943 to 1954. Many fans have heard of it, although for no other reason than the Penny Marshall film with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna: “A league.”
Wrigley perhaps viewed women -professional ball players as a gimmick and as an opportunity to earn bridge money for MLB until soldiers from the Second World War came home. Therefore it had no more expansion. That of women, the women played, will remain. But the film was released in 1992 and documents a league that was folded almost 40 years earlier. It was so long ago that it was real that events in “own league” could just as well be a work of total fiction.
Society has changed in the past 70 years. We are no longer stupid that people break their femininity because of sport. Little Little League and the High School play legions, and softball has been a great success in College Athletics for decades – and it is getting bigger. But only a few amateur players have ever got a gap to play professionally. The possibilities had fleeting and the leagues only had limited perseverance.
The participation of MLB makes nothing safe.
Professional Fastpitch -Softball leagues have existed in one form or another since 1997, but nobody was supported by the full faith and earnings of an existing major League.
What could we miss without an MLB partnership with professional softball? Only the other day Tennesses Softball Ace Karlyn Pickens threw a place 79.4 miles per hour into the NCAA tournament. When considering that a softball rubber is 43 feet from the home plate instead of 60 feet, 6 inches as in the baseball, it would be like trying to hit a place 111.71 miles per hour.
No, that does not mean that the Detroit Tiger should give an attempt tomorrow, and the outlet is not that. But it would be a sin if Picke had no place to play as a professional, like the best qualified college baseball pitcher when they are done with school.
It is obvious that the fastest and best way to women who have a sustainable place to play softball professionally comes from MLB loans of his weight.
The WNBA, which also started in 1997, would not have done it that far and was so healthy without NBA support. But anyone who has faith in faith can see that it grows beyond. Each of the NBA owners who were ready 20 years ago to never achieve a big return in their end. But an investment cannot pay off.
