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Old 02-09-2017, 12:39 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Mr. Marlin View Post
It's bound to sooner or later. Eri Yoshida played a couple seasons in Indy ball here in the US and a few more in Japan. Sooner or later one will show up in MiLB.
Maybe, but it'd be a long, hard, uphill struggle against biology.

Consider: 29.3% of U.S. males aged 20-29 were 5'11" or taller; just 0.4% of women were 5'11" or taller. The average height of a Major League player is over 6'. From this, it's easy to see that the pool of female candidates is vastly smaller than the pool of male candidates on a purely basic physical parameters measure, let alone factoring in skill and ability. U.S height data here.


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Originally Posted by thorpegiovanni View Post
AAGPBL would be a great addition to the historic options, though. Fictionalize it to be more professional, and continue it onto modern times.
I can agree with that.

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