The 23-year-old signed with the Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks on Thursday. She hopes she won’t be the last.
The thing to understand about 23-year-old Kelsie Whitmore’s path to signing a contract with the Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks—the highest level attained by a woman in professional baseball in more than a generation—is that there is no path. Not for women to play baseball.
Whitmore signed with the FerryHawks on Thursday. No woman has reached such a high level of professional baseball in more than a generation.
From a young age, girls are asked, then gently nudged, then usually forced to switch from baseball to softball.