'See Her Be Her' documentary highlights rise in women’s baseball

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'See Her Be Her' documentary highlights rise in women’s baseball

It’s an easy mistake to make, because the notion has been drilled into us for decades: Boys play baseball, girls play softball. One sport for each gender. Males often gravitated to slow-pitch softball as adults, but women of any age were discouraged or prevented from crossing the line to baseball.Until now.The issue came up last summer in northern Minnesota, when a documentary crew accompanying the U.S. national women’s baseball team (yes, there…