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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute? In 2010, the U.S.

fielded a baseball team to compete in the women's baseball World Cup in Caracas, not softball,

baseball. Most Americans never heard about the team, but Jennifer Ring knew about it. Ring is a

political science professor at the

University of Nevada, Reno. She writes about the team, which included her daughter, in a new book

called A Game of Their Own, Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball. Ring talked about the book

recently at the Bergeno Baseball Clubhouse in New York City, her response to

an audience member's question raises the possibility that the fastest route for a woman to make

it to major league baseball would likely be as a pitcher. Just comparing men to women, how fast can

the fastest female pitcher pitch? I'm just curious. You know, it keeps going up.

And I think this is another thing, which is that we don't know how good women are.

Boys have been taught to throw hard from the time they're five or six years old, probably too much so.

There's too much pressure, too much arm injuries, too much year-round pressure on boys.

The best girl fastball pitchers pitch in the 80s, the thing that

makes it easier for girls to succeed as a pitcher on a boys or a men's team are a couple of things.

One is that you really have to be fast, you have to run fast and you have to

big arm if you're going to be an outfielder. The pitchers can win with off-speed stuff. So the

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