Gender Stereotypes In Baseball

One thing I would like to point out is that I’m not a big fan of baseball or sports in general. Which is weird because I actually liked this movie a lot on how these women went from housewives from cleaning to cooking to baseball. A sport where most would think the last place you would see a woman. In those days women were looked at as caretakers and would do what everything around the house. I’m not saying all of them did that, but at that time when their husbands went off to war to fight for their country baseball was dwindling.
Since there wasn’t any entertainment in baseball there was a candy manufacturer by the name of Walter Harvey who started an all women's baseball league. This league was called the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League or for short (AAGPBL). As it was going to get started they needed players so they had a guy played by Jon Lovitz who would be recruiting the girls for the league and he went all over the United States to find them. The two girls he picked up for the league were Dottie and Kit. Kit always gets competitive with her older sister due to the fact that her older sister is better than her. While Dottie first turned down the offer to play baseball Kit was there to make her older sister rethink it. For the reasons being that Kit would want both of them to go out and doing something with their lives besides living on a farm and milk cows. While Dottie and Kit were traveling with the recruiter they stopped by in a little town where he and the girls would watch another possible candidate by the name of Marla Hooch. He sees she can hit but later doesn’t want her to play for the team. When Dottie and Kit ask the recruiter why, he responds that she is too ugly for the team. Dottie and Kit then go on to say that they will not play if she is not put onto the team, the recruiter has no other choice to let Marla on. As they get to the field they see 64 girls all trying out for the four teams that are going to play and those teams are the Rockford Peaches, Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets and the South Bend Blue Sox. In my opinion I feel there were very few parts of the movie where it could’ve been a political situation one of which is a very obvious one to point out. It is when they start a whole other league just for women since all the men were shipped off to war. To be honest I didn’t really catch many political situations while watching the movie. One other thing I forgot to mention is when they had to attend beauty school of some sort. They to act “lady like”, they had to eat with forks …show more content…
First, being on how much the women were going to get paid, there was always a pay gap but I’m sure the men didn’t get paid a thousand a week like the women did. Another thing to point out is that even in today's sports female athletes don’t get nearly the amount men do even if they do the same thing. Secondly, when the women were starting to play they had to wear skirts which kind of looked like vintage nurse uniforms. The person who chose these uniforms was trying to get some sort of sex appeal from these uniforms and their players. They did this so they would probably get a bigger male audience when watching the girls run. I guess what they were thinking is that the “sex sells” type of mindset when making their uniforms.
I believe that the league should not have been disbanded once the men returned home, because since it got big they should of kept it. It is unfortunate that it did eventually disband and that no one really cares about female sports in general anymore. It is just something that is just on tv nowadays, it is something that for some reason many people don’t want to see a woman play sports. I am not saying that people don’t but a majority would rather watch men’s basketball opposed to women’s