It is now 2021 and I question the direction North American sport is moving towards. I mean we live in lands of prosperity yet there is exactly one professional woman's league in North America to date, the WNBA. Soccer has resurfaced in North America in a men's' league, yet a Woman's professional league in soccer and baseball has been negated for years. Likewise that of a Disabled Sports league in wheelchair basketball. This makes me wonder when a movie like 'Field of Dreams' comes out and we start to believe 'If you build it, they will come.' yet higher powers negate the efforts of stories of inspiration and determination like that of 'A League of Their Own' and we end up seeing a stagnant mindset, one of being closed to stories that must be told. In 'A League of Their Own' the story of a Woman's Baseball League in America was told. If the MLBPA and the NLBPA were listening to the intonations of the current situation of the Woman Ballplayer of today, there would at least be the acknowledgement that Woman can play sports at a high level, a professional level.
When it comes to wheelchair basketball I speak from experience when I say it is an extremely hard sport to master. Making a 20 foot shoot from a wheelchair is almost impossible, yet there are a few men around the globe that can make that shot. My Uncle's old friend Flo played for the Toronto Spitfires Organization and they played in Worldwide Wheelchair Basketball Tournaments for years. Flo was known to be one of the greatest Wheelchair Basketball players of all-time and it is a resentment of mine that modern day society didn't think enough of their disabled population to at least give credence to those people who are good at what they do within the disabled community. Modern day society could in fact create Leagues in sport that would accommodate those that excel at sports, hence a Woman's MLB, a Woman's Professional Hockey League, a Woman's Professional Soccer League, and a Professional Wheelchair Sports League.
In fifty years how will leadership look at an apathetic society that had no problem negating efforts to build professional sports leagues for Woman and the Disabled. If it were up to me our leadership in Canada should rethink their position on the matter for at least the sense of acknowledging those that excel at sports.
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