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The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
broke the gender barrier in sports by proving women
could compete at a sport primarily played by men as they
were part of the first professional female sports
league and attracted large masses of viewers.

Game between the Racine Belles of Wisconsin and the South Bend Blue Sox of Indiana, September 14, 1947. Source: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 11 July 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/All-American-Girls-Professional-Baseball-League.

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