Question
1. (1) In 1943, when many professional baseball players were away at war, baseball executives formed the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League, which operated until 1954. (2) The “girls” were women. (3) They were required to avoid profanity and liquor, eat and live only in places approved by the league’s management, wear lipstick, play baseball in short skirts rather than pants, and be chaperoned when on dates. (4) They were lectured on “proper” feminine conduct, such as not talking too loudly in public. (5) The women in the league endured a degree of sexism and outside control that no woman athlete would tolerate today.