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novium258 t1_jcrb6vp wrote

Reply to comment by Knor614 in Olivia Pichardo Becomes First Woman to Play in a Division 1 College Baseball Game by Banestar66

Title IX, ironically. It allowed schools to ban girls from baseball if they offered them softball instead

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yavimaya22 t1_jcwxglw wrote

Can you pls elaborate?

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GOP-are-Terrorists t1_jdbxen0 wrote

Title 9 is an ncaa rule that basically says schools have to have an equal number of women's and men's sports teams. So to legally kick women off the baseball team regardless of how good they are schools just added softball and put them there.

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