STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Kelsie Whitmore always wanted to play in the major leagues. She did not always want to admit it.
“Are you sure?” people would respond, after they asked what she wanted to do.
Even at an early age, she knew what they really meant: “You know you can’t do that, right?”
They would, and still do, tell her how hard she would have to work, as if a girl who played baseball with the boys from the moment she started Little League didn’t know that already. She knew they thought she probably couldn’t do it. In fairness, they had never seen anyone try.
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