But baseball is, and has been, and always will be considered a male sport. If, according to this group you encouraged, someone said, “I’m going to one female sport this year”, baseball would not be on the list.

You would not be bringing any sport to any greater attention. Baseball is already a sport loved by, and fanatically followed by millions, and played by millions upon millions more. I’m not sure baseball can be brought to anymore awareness.

The best that could happen is that it wouldn’t become a “women’s sporting event”. It would simply become gender neutral, and I’m guessing that’s not good enough. Also, if your son ended up pitching for the Red Sox, and not your daughter, would you be, even the tiniest bit, disappointed?

Good luck to her, though. 92 MPH is the magic number on fastball. Fastballs in, sliders away. Plus there’s no real arm action on a slider. That means no danger of destroying a young arm with the added plus of being an amazing strike-out pitch. But she does need to build up arm strength and find a throwing motion that can eventually get her to 92 MPH. By age 13 she should be shooting for about 65-70 MPH.

I remember a girl that went out for our football team. She didn’t make it, but I always gave her props for trying. Best of luck to your daughter if that’s what she wants.

Peace.