Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pic of the week

I'm here! Just busy. Researching and scribbling away, and doing regular Life stuff. I am slowly working on the Nova interview questions, so SOON.

Hopefully.

Anyway, this week's pic of the week is in homage to the MLB playoffs (go Angels). Did you see A League of Their Own?

You know you did. Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Tom Hanks? Geena Davis? Women playing baseball?

This is a picture of Dottie Schroeder, one of the real women who played baseball during World War II.

From the Flickr Commons tag: Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder was born on April 11, 1928 and became the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's youngest player at age fifteen.

I still don't understand why women don't play professional baseball instead of just softball...

3 comments:

Dee said...

I'm not sure why women don't play baseball instead of softball either. Probably some ridiculous notion about women needing a bigger ball to be able to hit it. It's a wonder we even know which end of the bat to hold!

courtney said...

Great picture. I LOVE A League of Their Own. THERE IS NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!! :)

Susan Adrian said...

Dee: (sorry, this comment thread slipped RIGHT BY ME) YES. (aren't you glad you waited for that?) ;)

Courtney: I just quoted that to someone about writing. So HA.