From Title IX to LGBTQ inclusion: How AAGPBL helped change trajectory of women's sports



The league’s rules demanded its players appear “feminine” and not “boyish,” take charm school lessons and play baseball while wearing shirts.

Despite “Rules of Conduct” that seem laughable now, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of the 1940s and ’50s helped pave the way for a women’s sports landscape that today includes the WNBA, the NWSL and the women’s World Cup tournament.

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