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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Female baseball is actually growing in popularity. Pretty sure it’s catching on in Japan. The only biological reason that I could *maybe* see is that, in youth baseball, games can be absolutely brutal when kids move up to bigger field dimensions because it’s so hard for them to throw strikes. I would imagine it would be even harder for the average adolescent girl than boy.
But the real reason for the split is that, fast pitch softball actually was popular amongst men and women at first. It was played indoors. Then, TVs became ubiquitous, and men stopped playing fast pitch as much because they could watch their professional baseball league. Women didn’t have a baseball league so they kept playing soccer.
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