Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Spring Marie Cullen – Baseball Prospectus ($): I grew up playing baseball, and I faced some hazing thanks to being a bigger kid. Any hazing or hard times I ever received paled in comparison next to the grief given to the few girls I played with. It didn’t matter how good they were or how […]
Daniel R. Epstein – Beyond the Box Score: Women play baseball, that is a simple fact. They play in the amateur ranks and they play professionally, both in their own leagues and in leagues with men. There’s no reason that women playing baseball shouldn’t get more attention, but ultimately the women who do play get […]
I delude myself sometimes into thinking that the majority of baseball fans are in favor of equality. I talk the issue up in my head, I watch clips of impressive plays by women, or girls, in baseball and softball alike. In the baseball clips, I think to myself, “Man, one day soon women are going […]