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Hearing Little Acorns -- The White Stripes
Strikeout!
Cool beans: 11-year-old kid pitches a perfect game in Little League. The kicker: The 11-year-old is a girl, and the kids she pitched against are boys.
Physiologically, is this a big deal? If I remember 11 years old at all, I remember that boys and girls are still all the differentiated in terms of musculature and strength, and -- as I was one of the smallest kids in class, of either sex -- I remember lots of girls being bigger and more athletic than many of the boys.
Now, for what it's worth, I suspect that an athletic teenage girl who is an excellent pitcher could also theoretically blank a side of boys as well, but I don't know if they let girls play on the boy's baseball teams in high school. Does anyone out there know?
No matter how you slice it, however, pitching a perfect game is an awesome achievement, not matter who does it and at what level. This kid is going to remember this for the rest of her life. Good on her.
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Good for her. When we were kids, we had our own nieghborhood baseball teams. We played LL baseball in the street. Mattered not how old, what sex as long as you knew how to play and were half way decent, you could play. I oitched and caught. I could not field to save my life. I could pitch. I could hit. I was a girl. I am not an athletic but I loved baseball.
We used whatever we could find as bases. We used chalk to draw our lines. We all had fun.
Girls were not allowed to play regulated baseball. What a shame. -
Girls do play in Little League and it is said that they can ahve their own league whne older but that league (older) would be separate. Apparently, they may try out for high school teams.
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Great story. I wanted to be a pro baseball player when I was eleven. Back then they didn't let girls play baseball in jr. high or high school. They made us play softball. I resisted till my senior year (where coach reamed me for waiting so long). Why not have a girls baseball team? That would rock.
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Very cool.
5/21/05 2:54 AM