May 30, 2018, marked 75th Anniversary to-the-day of the first games played in All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. It is hard not to wonder, “What if?” about women’s professional baseball. For women like Jade Gortarez – a shortstop and pitcher – when she tells people that she plays for the USA Baseball Women’s National Team, their response most often is, “We have a women’s baseball team?”The United States national team was one of 12 countries that competed in the eight edition of Women’s Baseball World Cup. Women’s baseball was first introduced in 1902 but was later banned by the government in 1926. By the time women’s professional baseball was reintroduced in 2009 as the Girls Professional Baseball League or GPBL, the talent existed to field the teams.

Source: Forbes October 01, 2018 03:00 UTC