Baseball, perhaps fittingly for America's pastime, is a game of stubborn tradition and incremental change. This year, the Yankees will allow their players to don beards (and their fans to eat tiramisu out of little helmets). But women remain unable to play serious baseball, no matter how much they adore the sport. My colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany asks in our April magazine issue: 'In a game in which everything matters, in which we who love it wish to see every possible outcome unfold, how can we stomach the absence of women's baseball'' Today's newsletter explores the changes to baseball in recent years, and what has stayed the same.
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