How Kelsie Whitmore Became the Face of Women’s Baseball Progress

By Howard Megdal The 23-year-old signed with the Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks on Thursday. She hopes she won’t be the last. View the original article to see embedded media. The thing to understand about 23-year-old Kelsie Whitmore’s path to signing a contract with the Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks—the highest level attained by a woman in professional baseball in more than a generation—is that there is no path. Not for women to play baseball. From a young age, girls are asked, then gently nudged, then usually forced to switch from baseball to softball. Only this year …

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