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Palisade, Colorado, women's baseball team, about 1910

Women's baseball is played in several countries. The strongest and most organized women's baseball leagues are in the United States, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Cuba, Hong Kong, and Canada.[1] Those countries have national governing bodies that support girls' and women's baseball programs. Other countries/regions that currently have organized women's baseball are Germany, France, Netherlands, Croatia, India, South Korea, Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, and Pakistan. There also is a handful of women playing baseball in Vietnam currently on the Fishanu team at Hanoi University and on the Hanoi Baseball Club.

Internationally, the World Baseball Softball Confederation is the world governing body for women's and men's baseball, as well as women's and men's softball. The WBSC was created in 2013.[2]

  1. ^ Ring, Jennifer (2009). Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-0-252-03282-0.
  2. ^ "History". WBSC. 8 September 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2016.