Why cant girls play baseball....why does it have to be ONLY softball...?

Question

so im watching the olympics (thought u might want to know) and they have baseball....and then softball....and the baseball is for men and the other for women...etc..why does it have to be like that?why does baseball ONLY have to be for men and softball ONLY have to be for women...?? and how come in softball the women have to throw it diffrently than the men in baseball???

Answer 1

i really have know idea.i personally play baseball and its completely diffrent from softball ppl say it the same sport well the bull S**t.i hope one day to get some girls together to try to break the barrier in pro baseball

Answer 2

girls can play at a younger age.

as a softball player i personally think softball is better anyways.

i mean im sure if a girl got good enough she'd be able to play.

its like hockey. a girl got to play in the nhl one time....its just the matter of being physical enough for it.

Answer 3

I do understand your misunderstanding but however, the anatomy of men and women are significantly different. In baseball, the field is much larger than softball so most men can hit a ball farther than women and men throw harder than women, this is why they pitch underhanded, it's a natural movement. Have you ever seen a woman throw a 90 mph pitch? or hit a ball over 350 ft? until a woman can perform under them circumstances, all women will gravitate to softball. It's not that baseball doesn't want women, it's because women are not good enough to play baseball and they rather play softball.

Answer 4

Because they have cooties!

Answer 5

I am not really sure but, every girl i have known cant throw like a male. i think underhand is easier and more natural for women. no offense.

Answer 6

Well to the girls I know, they tell that they like softball better.

Answer 7

guys actually CAN play softball. not in the olympics but in other leagues, they can. just another sport that men can play while woman cant [along with football and hockey, for the most part anyway.]

this is pretty much my own opinion. but basically the difference is the strengths of men and women. its easier for women to hit a larger ball. and therefore, the pitching style is altered in order to get the most out of the pitch and make it as fast as possible. it also has to do with the lack of testosterone and therefore lack of muscle. women typically have less muscle than men. its just a way to make it easier for women to play. and in pro leagues and of course the olympics, they dont like to put men and women together. thats why they always have separate leagues and separate competitions for men and women. at least thats how i feel.

Answer 8

There's no rules that say women CAN'T play baseball. Women just opt for playing softball, and men opt for baseball. Men can play softball and women can play baseball.

But a woman would REALLY have to prove herself to be able to play baseball with the guys. It's a tough and, sometimes, dirty game.  

EDIT::

Hey, socks, I'm with ya on that.

Answer 9

i think it's stupid too. yes women generally don't have as much muscle mass/strength as men, so i would see a reason to shorten the fields... but that has nothing to do with eye/hand coordination, so why the bigger ball??? and holy c**p it's neon sometimes!! are women that much blinder and/or slower than men?

a few other rants:

- i think a bigger ball is actually harder to throw/catch than a baseball

- if anyone should have a bigger ball, it should be men, since they have bigger hands & a softball is less likely to beam u in the crotch as hard as a baseball would

- underhand throwing... ughhhh i know it can get fast, but why all the girly twirling?? watching the olympics, i even heard some girls grunt when they pitched.... WHAT?! as if it didn't look stupid enough

- compare little league softball to little league baseball, & u'll see every girl wearing a facemask when they bat... holy c**p if u can't see a giant neon ball coming ur way at a slower speed than a baseball, u deserve to get hit in the face!

i mean are women proven to have significantly slower reaction times than men? that's the only rationalization i can think of, but not enough to warrant all these differences

thank god i noticed a girl playing baseball on one of the little league world series teams today & ahhhhh no facemask!