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Baseball and Gender |
 | | In 1952, when Eleanor Engle was signed to a minor league contract with AA Harrisburg Senators, George Trautman, the baseball commissioner, voided her minor league contract (The Sporting News, July 2, 1952) |
 | | Of course, baseball is not the only sport to do this, and because of the equal rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, women demanded equal federally funded programs in both education and athletics, if not equal opportunity to play on the same team. |
 | | Softball (also defined by males in a male system of sport) as the female alternative to baseball illustrates this thinking because it gives a 'female', or softer alternative, to the 'male' sport of baseball rather than recognizing that the two sports are separate and unequal. |
| www.seaternal.com /baseball/gender.htm (1933 words) |
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