Softball?

I am watching A League of Their Own, which is about women's baseball during WWII, in a time when women were working in factories while the men were away fighting war, some women got the chance to play baseball.

This movie, along with The Sandlot, is one of my favorite baseball movies.

I was thinking about something, I was prompted by a quick scene during a montage...a black woman who is standing with black men next to the fence (because they were not allowed to sit in the stands back then), tossed the ball back in as it went out of bounds (is that even the correct term?) and she had thrown so hard, Dottie looked at her in amazement and the black woman nodded her head and went back to her spot by the fence.

When I decided to look up this particular woman's baseball league, I came across something that mentioned 3 black women: Toni Stone, Connie Morgan, and Mamie Johnson, who played baseball for the Negro Leagues, and the only females supposedly to do so.

I couldn't believe it when I read it, but these 3 women, especially Stone, were harassed by the men in the leagues, and I couldn't believe it, here these black men were barred from major baseball because of skin, yet they turn around and mistreat women for their gender...but one shouldn't be surprised considering black men in a sense acted the very same way as white men, they were just plain ignorant.

At that point I realized something. Today its not too unusual to see black men in baseball, some of the best have been black. But I realized, women have yet to still get that opportunity to play in the major leagues.

In high school, like most high schools, you had a baseball team and a softball team. Softball is definitely not really considered popular anywhere. But its weird, you look at all sports such as the WNBA and chances are, many haven't heard of it. It seems like the only thing women can be known for in the sports arena is cheerleading, such as the Dallas cheerleaders.

Its kind of like the voting thing. Black men got the right to vote (even though they were threatened and even killed if they tried to vote anyways) before women got the right. Most black women are too affected by the racial issues than they are the gender issues to really focus on the gender issues...but it definitely seems like men value the abilities and opinion of other men (of different races), than they do of women who are the same race as they are themselves.

I could be wrong though....