The New York
Times has covered Mo’ne Davis to the point I wondered if they were more
interested in the symbol than the child, so Wednesday’s story came as a
surprise. It focused more on health than
sports.
Right now,
13-year old girls have a developmental advantage over their male
counterparts. But the odds are Davis
won’t grow much taller than her present 5’4”.
If so, it’s unlikely we’ll be hearing much about her on the baseball
diamond two or three years from now.
But as one of
the experts in the story pointed out, she could still end up throwing a 90-mile
an hour fastball. And if not her, then
another girl, maybe a six-footer we’ve never heard of from International Falls
or Bisbee. What the Little League World
Series has shown above all is the existence of an audience ready to root for
the next Jackie Robinson, if only baseball would exert itself to find her.
Mo’ne Davis met Rob
Manfred, the next baseball commissioner, earlier this week. I wonder what she told him. I wonder if he listened.
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