The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943, also offered women the chance to play professionally. The league, which inspired the 199 ...

Herman For The Daily item Aug 11, 2024 Aug 11, 2024 SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — As a kid in 1950, Kathryn Johnston wanted to play Little League ... Pepe allowed girls to play in the baseball program ...

Baseball is back, and so is the annual Trailblazer Series, Major League Baseball’s initiative to foster youth girls’ baseball ...

A former little league baseball coach from Dunnellon won’t be heading home for a long time. A Department of Justice release ...

On April 21, 1974, she appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News when she became one of the first girls legally permitted to join a Little League baseball team, in New Jersey.

OPINION: Softball ‘reinforced the gendered division’ and ‘cemented the post-Title IX segregated masculinity of baseball’?

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 ...

In 1974, the National Organization for Women filed a lawsuit against Little League Baseball because the league’s charter excluded girls from playing. The lawsuit was successful, and girls were ...