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Novara

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4. Call me pessimistic, but....

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 10:29 AM

Jun 2015

....if a club picks her up I think it will be a short lived phenomenon only. Baseball purists are so deeply steeped in tradition that I can't see them embracing a female player yet. Unless she is absolutely phenomenal, and then I'm not even sure.

I wish her luck, though. And she can get the ball rolling towards a time when this will be a completely accepted and welcome thing. She might be the first one who can start change rolling.

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French teenager may become the first woman to play Major League Baseball [View all] stevenleser Jun 2015 OP

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Call me pessimistic, but.... Novara Jun 2015 #4