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There is a special section in the Baseball Hall of Fame for women who played in the Women's professional league in the 1940s.
While a woman has never played in an MLB regular season game, there was a woman who played in spring training and struck out Babe Ruth, and her name was Jackie Mitchell she also struck out Lou Gehrig, on 7 combined pitches. (Ruth on 4, Gehrig on 3). There was the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and there was a movie made about this called, A League of Their Own. There is no rule stating that a women can't play in MLB.
Protecting the reproductive freedom of women was one of the two major goals of the National Organization for Women. NOW was founded on June 30, 1966.
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Womenhad a very little role in sports in this era of time but women did do cheerleading at this time(: