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“...women are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”
—Babe Ruth
女孩子就应该去跳芭蕾舞，穿着美丽的蓬蓬裙，一举手一投足尽显优雅。这是什么怪理论，反正这对我不适用，我只想打棒球！
芭蕾舞？别开玩笑了，我只喜欢棒球！
Lois Siegel: When I was seven, I wanted to be a baseball player. I was ready for the Major Leagues, except for one detail. I always put my glove on backwards and on the wrong hand. One day this kid said to me, “You know, girls can't be baseball players.” He was trying to tell me there were rules, like, girls could be ballerinas—note the scar on my right knee. That was from playing baseball, much to my mother's 1)chagrin. But girls couldn't be cowboys. You know what? I didn't listen.
路易斯·西格尔：我七岁的时候，想成为一名棒球手。我还准备参加职业联赛呢。但有一个细节问题，那就是每次我都会把手套戴反了，而且还会戴错手。有一天，一个小孩告诉我：“你知道，女孩是不能成为棒球手的。”他试图告诉我这是有规矩的，就像女孩就应该去当个芭蕾舞演员——我右边膝盖有道疤，就是打棒球的时候弄的，这也是妈妈心里的一根刺。还有就是女孩也不能成为牛仔。但你知道吗，我根本不理会这些。
我是一名棒球选手
Megan McCredie(Baseball Player): My name is Megan and I'm seven and a half.
梅根·麦克雷迪（棒球手）：我叫梅根，今年七岁半。
Lois: Megan McCredie is just starting her baseball career. She plays for the “Cubs” in 2)Pointe Claire, a suburb of3)Montreal.
路易斯：梅根·麦克雷迪刚刚开始自己的棒球生涯，她效力于位于蒙特利尔郊区的克莱尔岬中学“古柏斯”队。
Megan: I'm the only girl on…on my team, and, but we have a lot of good players, an'…
梅根：我是队里……唯一的女孩，但我们有很多优秀的球手。
Lois: So what's the good and the bad part about playing with boys?
路易斯：那跟男孩一起打棒球有什么好的和不好的地方呢？
Megan: There's no good and no bad part about playing with boys. As some people say, the more boys the better.
梅根：跟男孩打球没什么好不好的。大家都说，男孩越多越好。
And you always have to choose your right pitch. If it's too low, too high and you swing for all of them, it's a 4)strike, but if you don't 5)swing for it, you just keep your 5)bat like this an' you watch it go by, it's…it's a ball, and…you don't get out. If it's like this—it has to always be some…somewhere around your 7)belly button or your stomach, and if it's about there, swing for it.
你得能投出好球。但如果球投得太低或是太高，每个球你都能挥棒击中，那就是个好球。如果你不挥棒，只是像这样一直举着球棒，看着球飞过，那这就是个坏球。一般当球到你肚脐或者胃周围的位置，或者快到那里的时候，挥棒就是了。