Posted on 08/17/2017 4:24:47 AM PDT by DWW1990
While all sound-minded Americans await the start of college football season and the NFL, to tide us over, we are soon to have the awesome American pleasure of the Little League World Series (LLWS) to enjoy. The U.S. regionals—which determine the eight American teams (in addition to the eight international teams) in the LLWS—are complete. Today, August 17, the tournament to determine the 71st LLWS champion begins. Noticeably absent again this year: girls. Someone should write a memo.
In 1974—of course, thanks to a ruling from a female judge—the Little League Federal Charter was amended to allow girls to play Little League Baseball. Since then, by my count (with the LLWS consisting of 8 teams each year from 1974 to 2000—with only 4 in 1975—and 16 teams annually since 2001), there have been 484 teams in the LLWS. Figuring 12 players per team (there are sometimes more and rarely less), that’s at least 5,808 players in the LLWS since girls were allowed to participate.
During that time, and in spite of the fact that one in seven U.S. Little League players is a girl, only 18 girls have participated in the LLWS, including only six American girls. That means that since 1974, less than one-third of one percent of LLWS participants have been girls. All of those ignorant of human anatomy, biology, and physiology—an ever-increasing number of Americans, it seems—should be aghast.
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Cool!
“in spite of the fact that one in seven U.S. Little League players is a girl”
My husband is the president of our local Little League. This stat is misleading because under the under the umbrella of Little League, there is Little League Baseball and Little League (girls) Softball. So if you count those softball teams perhaps 1 in 7 is a girl (I still doubt the numbers). In every league he has been involved with, there are typically 1-3 girls and 200-500 boys playing baseball.
Just ask Brittney Griner
Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s in Vancouver, Washington, the criteria for being selected to the All-star team, which went on to play in the state and national tournament, was at least 1 home run. It didn’t matter how good of fielder or hitter you were, if you didn’t hit at least 1 homer you weren’t going to be selected. Most of the kids were the bigger slower and fatter kids who got lucky.
It was an annual joke to watch the selection at the end of the last game of the season. We all had to sit in the bleachers to await the announcements. The kids and coaches all knew who were the best players and would just give each other that “WTF look”.
Of course our team never made it out the district rounds.
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
The U.S. Women's National Team played several scrimmage games against some high school boys hockey teams in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I think they ended up going 2-2 in four games.
That pretty much says it all. A team comprised of the top female hockey players in the nation is comparable in talent to a decent boys high school hockey team.
There's something pathological about this fixation a lot of people have on seeing women try to "prove themselves" in areas of life where they will simply never be comparable to men.
Yes, perhaps sooner rather than later.
On occasion, I’ve been known to use the phrase “throw like a girl,” just ribbing my daughter as she throws very well and not at all like the phrase implies. Then one day she objected and I agreed not to use that phrase anymore. To make the same point I now say someone “throws like Obama.”
I always laugh at the scores of the women's games. I am used to seeing the same scores on HS BB teams. I believe that the NBA subsidizes the WNBA. At least, it was that way when the league first started.
They discriminate against transkids, too..😀
use to play with the LL out of Orchards, WA in the early 60s. If you showed up with a glove, you played ball. Lot of our all fields also doubled as hay fields when the season was over.
We had the nice Alcoa LL Fields on 4th Plain.
Good, I was glad you knew I was only kidding...the response from someone more sensitive might have been a fast ball-pitch in the er...nether regions...!
I don’t rag on the competition, because I am sure it is fierce, it is the capitalistic aspect of it that makes me look askance at it!
He got a home run last night!
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