Teenager baseball pitcher to break Mexico gender wall
Source: Agence France-Presse
Teenager baseball pitcher to break Mexico gender wall
•13 Dec 2015 at 02:45 9 viewed0 comments
• WRITER: AFP
MéRIDA (MEXICO) - With her 78-mile-per-hour fastball, teenager Rosa Maria del Castillo became the first female pitcher in a Mexican semi-pro men's baseball league, breaking the gender barrier in a notoriously macho society.
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Rosa María del Castillo, the first woman pitcher
playing in a local professional league for the
Tamanche Bluejays, poses on December 6, 2015
in Merida, Mexico
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The right-hander's pitch repertoire includes a fastball, a curveball and a change-up -- not bad for an 18-year-old who stands barely 1.72 meters (5.6 feet) tall.
"I want to believe that more doors will begin to open for women in baseball, although it won't happen quickly," she told AFP, her dark curly hair flowing behind her blue baseball cap.
"Rosy," as she is better known, plays for the Azulejos of Tamanche, a team in the Liga Meridana in the Caribbean coast state of Yucatan, where professionals play during the winter break.
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