Baseball women

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Japan celebrates its sixth consecutive world championship at the Women's Baseball World Cup in May 30, , marked the 75 th Anniversary to-the-day of the first games played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. By the time the league disbanded in , over women had played professional baseball. What if we were celebrating 75 years of thousands of women playing to capacity crowds?

Women have a long history in American baseball and many women's teams have existed over the years. A number of women's barnstorming teams have existed, [4] and women have played alongside major league players in exhibition games. Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract as a result. In , former player Edith Houghton became the first woman to work as an independent scout in Major League Baseball when she was hired by the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League. There is some evidence that women were playing base ball as it was then called as far back as the s, [7] but it was not normal for young ladies to play what was considered a man's sport.

Women's baseball is played in several countries. There also is a handful of women playing baseball in Vietnam currently on the Fishanu team at Hanoi University and on the Hanoi Baseball Club. Internationally, the World Baseball Softball Confederation is the world governing body for women's and men's baseball, as well as women's and men's softball. The WBSC was created in