Right now, in 2026, there aren’t many places for you to join an adult baseball league. Sure, some exist, but for the most part, they are exclusively for men, unless you want to play softball.
But I don’t want to play softball.
I also don’t want to push my way onto a men’s team. And I know I’m not alone there.
Especially in small towns across the US, it’s frowned upon for women to think they should get a chance to play too.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
We don’t have to continue accepting only sitting in the bleachers and cheering everyone else on. Or watching at home cheering on our team while we are fed ad after ad for food that is terrible for us, medications we wouldn’t need if we were more active, and crap we don’t need.
How many of us have gym memberships or somewhere at home that we work out? Probably more than a few.
But what if we were to work off lunch with a post work game? Or at least something on the weekends that is more fun than running on the same treadmill you have for years while staring at a screen that continues to feed you more ads. Right?
Fitness should be more fun. Fitness could be more fun, if we allowed ourselves to seek joy more.
And while I’m not saying that you shouldn’t spend any time in the gym, especially if you want to be in good enough shape to play ball, I am saying that I have found my workouts to be harder to skip when I frame them as my ticket to safely playing more.
It’s easier to convince myself to lift or do bands to protect my arm so I can keep having catches with my boys and participate in this life we are building. Just doing it for stronger bones 20 years from now isn’t quite as motivating, even if it that’s the real reason I should be doing it.
I haven’t watched my last Yankee game yet by any means, but I do want to prioritize getting out and playing over watching every pitch moving forward. It will do wonders for my body to sit less and be in community with other fans of the game more often. Want to dig in more to the topic of sitting being a problem? Check out this call to action to take a “Stand Against Sitting“.
Would you play on a couple’s league? Or a co-ed adult league? A baseball team, not a slow pitch softball team? What would you need to support successfully getting to games and practices? Childcare? A gym? Sound off in the comments, I want to know what you think.
Until next time, keep it moving my friends,
