Talk:Women's baseball

Deletion proposal response

 * ''This response to a deletion proposal was moved from the article:

This article is brief so far, because it is still in development, and I have asked some people who are involved with women's baseball to feel free to add to the article. I disagree that the information in it can be found elsewhere in Wikipedia, because I did searches for women's baseball before creating it, and I did not find anythnig relating to it. Please be patient, as this article could contain a TON of information, so it will take some time to develop it more. Furthermore, there are too many teams and leagues around the world to talk about each one specifically. Therefore, I highly disagree that this article be deleted from Wikipedia. From my understanding, articles can be in development within Wikipedia and can be added to, so I don't understand where the problem lies. I see that there is a category for baseball under Women's Sports, but there is already an article there called "Women's Baseball". I think that article should be renamed "All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League," because that is what it is specifically talking about. I hope to develop this article to encompass all of women's baseball.
 * ''Contributed by User:Shawnimac13.

Can't find where to add material...1989 Victoria Brucker was the first female to play in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvannia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.214.45.83 (talk) 01:44, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Misnamed?
Isn't this supposed to be called softball and not baseball because women use a different ball and have a smaller field? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.243.53 (talk) 04:29, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Not misnamed - misinformed This is a common misconception - particularly in the United States. Women play baseball, with the hardball, but the myth has been perpetuated for many years that softball is a girls game and baseball is the boys game. Monet Davis put everyone straight recently. She commented something like there is no boys sport and girls sport ... there is just sport. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 223.197.116.7 (talk) 09:48, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Oh dear
This is a truly awful wikipedia article, written like a train of thought by a well meaning enthusiast. The 'timeline' is particularly horrifying. GavinZac (talk) 06:17, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Does not Cite Sources Tag
This article does not currently cite any of its information. Furthermore, the article is in need of a good deal of copyediting in order to bring it up to Wikipedia standards. The timeline could be trimmed to be more effective. Information and citations about the efforts to add women's baseball to the 2016 Olympic Games would also be a good way to hep improve this article. Magic1million (talk) 21:06, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

1952 — June 23, organized baseball banned women from the minor leagues; the ban remains in effect today
This is not true; there have been a few women since then that have played in the minor leagues. Not quite sure when the ban was lifted but some research is needed. Nothing is cited anywhere in this article about it.96.32.46.89 (talk) 07:11, 8 December 2013 (UTC)TravisNapoleanSmith

Found an article: http://www.newser.com/story/85653/minor-league-team-signs-female-pitcher.html has details of a few women minor leaguers 96.32.46.89 (talk) 07:16, 8 December 2013 (UTC)TravisNapoleanSmith

Misinformation here about the article.
First of all, as the person below is saying, there's nothing (source, fact, "rule") in any heavy reasoning that directly assumes softball is for females only, or played by females only; anyone can play it and it's not considered a "female division" of the ball and bat sport. There's no reason the article should be called "women in softball" or such, or even really mention that like it's some kind of key aspect to the whole encompassing of females in bat and ball sports, because softball is just another form of baseball, and there's no such association of females being tied to or "required" or any of the likeness to softball in particular; that would be absurd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BirthOfJesus (talk • contribs) 02:42, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

possible sources
pasted into the article without context:

http://www.mister-baseball.com/french-womens-baseball-team-tomcat-girls-play-tournament-paris/

http://www.mister-baseball.com/womens-baseball-game-played-croatia/

-- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)