I don’t think baseball is much different than softball, I think females are athletic enough. Why did softball stick and not baseball, seems like the only major sport that did this, excluding the absence of female football leagues.
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In short, that’s simply not the case. Women’s baseball was officially recognised by AAU in 2001. In 2004 the first Women’s Baseball World Cup was held. There are Women’s Baseball Leagues in several countries in addition to the US including Japan, Australia, Canada and even my own homeland the UK. Moreover there are now some women playing in professional men’s teams and the possibility of women playing in MLB remains open. Girls who have played in Little League teams in the USA and elsewhere have more opportunities to continue playing as they get older than ever.
Softball has tended to take the lead for a number of historical reasons but it has not been the only game in town for some time. It will be baseball for the men and softball for the women when the games are restored to the Olympics but only because certain thresholds for participation and organisation have not yet been met.
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