Team USA after winning the gold medal at the Women's World Cup, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006

Stacy Piagno, high school pitcher from St. Augustine, Florida, pitching for the Chicago Pioneers at the Roy Hobbs tournament, Ft. Myers, Florida, October 2007 (courtesy Jim Glennie, American Women's Baseball Federation)

The four Boden sisters of the Chicago Pioneers after winning the fifteen and under division championship at the Roy Hobbs tournament, Ft. Myers, Florida, October 2007 (courtesy Jim Glennie, American Women's Baseball Federation)

Lilly Jacobson warms up in the bullpen for Wooster High School, Reno, Nevada, 2006

Ball players from AAGPBL at 2006 Team USA trials, Scottsdale, Arizona

Krissy Wendell of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, in the 1994 Little League World Series (courtesy Little League Baseball, Inc.)

Maria Pepe, baseball player and feminist activist (courtesy Little League Baseball, Inc.)

Girl’s baseball game, Hebrew Institute of Chicago (from Chicago Historical Society)

Esther Daly, Vassar College, class of 1920, pitching overhand (from Vassar College Archives)

Class of 1924 Vassar baseball team (from Vassar College Archives)

2013 You can change this! Rachel inside my copy of Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball