“Women’s Rights to Play Professional Baseball” “It’s not about women acting like men. It’s about women acting like women and being successful.” ~Zooey Deschanel. Although this quote was said by an actress, this quote is a very powerful quote about women getting their rights and being accepted into the “males are the only powers” kind of society. This big key factor was always put into action since we first came to America. This is something that is remarkably important to me. That is, in 1943, while most men and all professional athletes were overseas fighting during World War II, baseball stadiums were beginning to go into debt because there was no baseball going on due to the war. Philip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, had the idea of creating a Women’s Professional Baseball League. Everybody seemed to be delighted by it. It was an amazing idea, in my opinion. From then on, baseball and softball for women changed forever. I don’t know if softball would be as big of a deal as it is if the league was never made. Softball definitely is a popular sport in the United States, and if these women wouldn’t have played, it’s hard to say …show more content…
They ended up with four teams of fifteen players a team, making sixty girls in the league. The four original team names were: Kenosha Comets, Racine Belles, Rockford Peaches, and the South Bend Blue Sox. The teams consisted of fifteen girls, a manager (coach), a business manager, and a women chaperon. The league ended up going on for eleven years. The first year, hardly anybody came to see the girls play, but as the league went on, stadiums could hardly fit all of the people coming to see them play! The league was an amazing thing that happened to these girls because it gave them a chance to show society that girls can do things just as good as men. As the league progressed, and men were out fighting, these women really showed what women are made of. All of