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stevenleser

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3. Cricket seems to me to be more of a gentleman's club game where women are deliberately excluded

Reply to Violet_Crumble (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 08:38 AM

Jun 2015

...whereas baseball has seemed open to the idea for some time now but because women are steered away from it at a young age, they never develop the required skills. I think that if a woman player seemed able to be able to help a club win, they would sign her in half a heartbeat.

I could be wrong about Cricket.

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