For this assignment, you will be reading an article about baseball.Once you have

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For this assignment, you will be reading an article about baseball.Once you have read the content, in one full paragraph, tell me (in three sentences minimum) one specific thing that you learned from the article. In your second paragraph, tell me some specific information that you would have liked to have seen discussed further in the article (in three sentences minimum)

We would rather play ball than eat,” insisted catcher Lavonne “Pepper” Paire. “We put our hearts and souls into the league. We thought it was our job to do our best, because we were the All-American girls. We felt like we were keeping up our country’s morale.”The history of women playing the game of baseball dates back to at least the 1860s, when Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. fielded a team. Some 80 years later, arguably the first formal women’s professional baseball league, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, first took the field.The AAGPBL, which began play in 1943 and lasted a dozen years and gave more than 500 women an opportunity that had never existed before. Popularized by the 1992 feature film A League of Their Own (“There’s no crying in baseball!”), the so-called “lipstick league” was the brainchild of Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley as a way to keep the ballparks busy during World War II if manpower shortages threatened big league baseball.

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I learned from the above paragraph that women started playing baseball in 1860 when Vassar College in Pough Keepsie originated a team. The All Americans Girls Professional Baseball League started play in 1943 and lasted a dozen of years giving 500 women an opportunity that had never existed before. The Lipstick League was the brain child of Chicago Cubs owner Philip K.Wrigly.

More details are required on "Lipstick League" . Also more information should be given on the "All Americans Girls Baseball League".It should be explained as to how manpower shortages led to threatening of big league basketball.

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