mr. rafferty-osaki: that's right. [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] mr. erty-osaki: that leads us to our second topic. yes, there were a lot of women in baseball. in fact, you remember the song we played at the beginning of class? "take me out to the ballgame"? most people forget the original verse to that song. you only hear the chorus at the ballgame -- the original says, "katie casey was baseball mad, had the fever and had it bad, just to root for the hometown crew -- on a saturday her young beau called to see if she'd like to go to see a show, but miss katie said no, i'll tell you what you can do, take me out to the ballgame." women loved baseball. beginning in you had a college 1866, program in baseball, and by the way, this idea of a seven sisters school, six of them organized baseball teams to 1920 by 1867, you have the first they were all black. and so begins this rich tradition of baseball. not softball, i want to make this clear, it was baseball that women loved. one scholar states there are several ways for women to participate in the game. let'

mr. rafferty-osaki: yes?i keep going back to women in baseball, but it is not enough to just be good athletes. so much of baseball was a class issue. for women in baseball, they had to uphold their femininity and maintain their class. they had to maintain their is similar and what in this case, maintaining their class as a lower class in this time, and trying to balance and the way they maintain their class was by everything that they were doing. a way for them to not pressure and not upset the white folks very much. we will talkosaki: about women in baseball in a few minutes. in this film, when they are talking about sally, he was the manager and part of the negro league. he was trying to shut down this team, because this independent organization being formed by players. it is a matter of class as well, , they were ownership entrepreneurs and they wanted to make as much money as possible as well. it can only play certain players -- pay certain players certain amount of money for their entertainment value. >>