Should females be allowed to play for Major League baseball teams?
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Eri Yoshida is an interesting example because she is a knuckleball pitcher. The Boston Globe recently ran an article on her and her meeting with Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox at their spring training facility. He was impressed with her knuckleball abilities, a skill that is hard to find in the major leagues (see link below).
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But the game should not change in order to accommodate anyone regardless of age, gender etc....
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When it's all guys, a coach can stand in the middle of a room of naked men - who are preparing for the beginning of the game or refreshing themselves after a game - and say what he has to say. But a woman would have to separate themselves from the environment. It would be a distraction to have a naked woman wandering through the locker room, even if she was one of them.
The other problem I see is a matter of respect, particularly in situations where ego rules. Professional athletes belittle each other, though perhaps in baseball less than basketball and football, and gender issues might make for some legal complications.
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Most of us look at baseball as only the product on the field. However, the majority of any team sport is spent in the locker room, team practices, bus trips, hotel rooms, and late night or early morning team meals.
Adding a woman to this equation would completely change the dynamic of all these events. Suddenly, the focus may shift from baseball to impressing her.
As many men know, adding a woman to a "guy's thing" (from poker night to watching sports) completely changes the dynamic of the event, even with the most well meaning of women. And vice versa, this applies to "girl's night" too. People start watching what they say, and suddenly a team isn't able to form the comradery they used to have.
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I believe if a woman can beat out a man for the spot, she should be able to play-- although it would be difficult for most women to develop the physical strength needed to play professional ball.
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Michelle Wie and Annika Sorenstam have both given the men a run for their money in the PGA, and way before them, in 1992, Manon Rheaume signed with the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightening as a goalie, turning away 7 of 9 shots on goal.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1861392_1861401_1861406,00.htmlhockey
Ann Myers Drysdale was signed by the NBA's Indiana Pacers in 1979, but released before the season. Several NBA insiders believe that women may develop skills needed to play the guard position now that some of the rules have been changed to allow less physical play, but strength will be a problem in the NBA.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/ian_thomsen/12/04/countdown/index.html
I've often wondered why bowling and especially billiards (pool), aren't moving faster into gender combined competition, as there seem to be fewer reasons for men to have advantages. There are several women billiards players who compete well with the men, including Julie Kelly and Karen Corr.
Personally, I saw a high school girl playing football for a team that played our local boys a few years back. She was the place kicker, and wouldn't you know it, late in the game on a 25 yard FG attempt, one of our guys roughed the kicker. And it wasn't one of those barely touched 'em numbers, he flattened her but good. Of course they got the yardage and the first down and ended up scoring, but I remember how angry everyone was, unusually so since it was a girl. Well, nobody in their right mind would intentionally commit that penalty at that point in the game, it was accidental. Point being, girls will get hurt just like boys under contact. If this pitcher ever has to slide into second or worse yet home plate, she may get hurt just like the guys.
So go ahead and play, but remember, sometimes contact hurts, and there are some big boys playing ball these days, so........
No Crying In Baseball!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DNBBrkIPN8
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Aside from the obvious reasons she should be allowed to play, the reality is, she has to play if she's good enough.
No top-level professional sport would have any credibility if they blocked the best players from playing. See MLB before African-American athletes.
If the New York Yankees couldn't beat a women's team over in Brooklyn, the World Series wouldn't be of much value.
At the same time, no MLB team would carry a player that wasn't good enough just for novelty sake. Let's face it, fans boo a guy hitting .350 if he makes his third error in a week. It certainly wouldn't fill seats if Eri Yoshida has an 11.95 ERA.
Looking outside the United States you can see this dynamic in action. 30 years ago, if you'd have told an English football (soccer) fan that they would support a team that comprised players from their hated local rivals, Germany and France, while featuring only one English player, you'd have been laughed at, and perhaps beaten, for such a comment.
But that is the exact make-up of the top four teams in England. You could argue that this is due to an age of enlightenment, etc, but the truth is, it happened because each team wanted to be the best, no matter what.
That meant the best players anywhere you could get them. And at the end of the day, it meant a completely integrated football league that no other league in the world compares to.
So when, not if, women are good enough for Major League Baseball, they won't be "allowed" to play. They'll be sought after like any other player.
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Women should play in Professional Leagues when they also play in Little Leagues, High School, and College teams. The entire notion of gender segregated sports needs to be changed, not just make some media circus about a 1 in a billion woman playing for the Yankees, or the Lakers, or any other franchise.
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Myself :)
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if she doesn't play in a superior league, she might be bored out of her mind dominating every pitch. there's no comparable women's league to MLB (i think).