The Metro: Women’s baseball has a long history. Can a new league cement its future?
Leslie Heaphy, president of the International Women’s Baseball Center and associate professor of history at Kent State University, joined the show to discuss the past, present, and future of women’s baseball.
Woman batter in baseball game at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1928.
For over a century, women have been playing baseball. Some of the earliest teams can be traced back to the 1890s. For a brief period during World War II, women played in their own league.
It was called the All American Girls Professional Baseball League and was depicted in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own.” That league lasted 11 years.
Since then, all other attempts to start one have fallen short. Will the new women’s league expected to start this summer last?
Leslie Heaphy, President of the International Women’s Baseball center and Associate Professor of history at Kent State University, joined the show to discuss the past, present, and future of women’s baseball.
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