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This week we started discussing gender roles and how the big three sports are dominated by men. From the beginnings of sport, athletes have been seen as masculine beings and women's entrance into sports was always frowned upon. Comparing the abilities of men and women was a threat to man's superiority. On February 21, 2011, Justine Siegal broke an MLB barrier when she became the first woman to pitch batting practice in a major league spring training camp. This article states that Siegal has broken barriers in baseball prior to her training camp experiences, including coaching first base in men's professional baseball for the Brockton Rox in 2009. She spent three years as the only female college baseball coach in the country, when she was an assistant at Springfield College from 2007-2010. Manager Manny Acta, whom also pitches for the Cleveland Indians, even went as far as saying that she made him look bad. This is just one step in one sport closer to what pro sports should be in the future.
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