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Gender Equality Progress in Professional Sports Comes Out of Left Field

The headline-grabbing sports story of the waning days of summer is not of a Major League Baseball pennant race; neither is it the rapidly approaching onset of the NFL season, nor the bizarre death of a racecar driver after being struck by another car on the track recently.

Rather, it's the story of a 13-year-old Little League pitcher who mows down opposing batters with a 70 mph fastball and pitched a complete game in the Little League World Series. So reports Medium.com.

Forty years after the passage of Title IX – the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination at educational institutions that accept federal funds – gender equality has taken a significant step forward this summer. Did we mention that this young prodigy, Mo'ne Davis, happens to be a girl, and that she made the cover of Sports Illustrated?

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