Yesterday,
Sports Illustrated senior editor Emma Span wrote an op-ed piece in the NYT asking, “Is Softball Sexist?” Her answer was an unequivocal Yes. The funny thing for me is that I’d stop
sending pretty much the same essay to the Times after numerous rejections each
spring. Me no write good, I guess.
Anyway, I wanted
to know what Clare thought of the piece.
You can’t expect someone who’s just gone through eight years of intense
softball on the high school and college levels to turn on her sport, and she
didn’t. What I found interesting,
though, was my daughter’s observation that, “All the best hitters I met played
baseball first.” And Clare, of course, belongs
among them.
What I’d like to see
is the Cubs opening up Wrigley Field to women for a little batting practice as
part of its hundred-year anniversary. I
mean, the All American Girls Professional Baseball League was the brainchild of
P.K. Wrigley, so why not?
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