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Old Thu Jun 27, 2013, 06:48pm
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Originally Posted by Stat-Man View Post
Some of the ones I can remember for our city league (speaking coed SP):

* Both genders use the same sized ball.QUOTE]

I never understood why women use the smaller ball for slow pitch and/or when batting during co-ed games. I mean, many of these women played fast-pitch at some point in their lives. If a 12-year old girl can manage to catch, throw, and hit the 12" ball, what's the logic about going to the smaller ball once they're "grown up"?

And, if a woman is pitching in co-ed, why doesn't she get to throw the small ball?

Don't get all wound up - this is mostly rhetorical.
About 5-6 years ago there was a proposed change to eliminate the 11" ball from the Co-rec game. The council member I was with covered that change in the Player Rep meeting while I covered another change in a different group.

I caught up to him coming out of that committee and the women were still hollering and laughing at him for such an absurd proposal.
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