Where will you be?

There's a commercial for a TV/Internet provider that envisions a future with exciting things happening, like man setting foot on Mars and so forth. The idea is that this service makes it possible to enjoy TV anywhere, the train station, the coffee shop, the airport...
First, a side note: there's a future where we're landing human beings on Mars but we're still taking the train to work? #LameFuture.
One of the variations revolves around where you will be the moment a woman plays in the Big Leagues for the first time. My simple answer is no where. I won't be anywhere watching it because it isn't going to happen.
Certainly women are fully capable of playing in the Big Leagues. My answer is drawn from the fact that things can't spontaneously happen because it's a good idea that fills our hearts with joy. Women won't play in the Big Leagues...ever, ever, ever...if they don't play baseball.
That's how men make it. They grow up playing baseball as kids, keep playing through high school and into the minors then to the Majors. At no point do men play baseball, play softball for a while then go back to baseball and make it to the Big Leagues.
The reason anyone does anything is because the opportunity exists and the proper development is undertaken. Neil Armstrong trained to be an astronaut. Michael Jordan developed his basketball talent. All talent has to be developed. Since girls aren't developed to play baseball, they'll never make it to the Big Leagues. So I'll be no where ever when a woman plays in the Big Leagues for the first time.
But such is the case with youth sports and the development thereof. I've been involved with sports, in some fashion, for nearly 40 years now. Youth sports, on a bigger level, have failed miserably to understand how to build themselves up.
Soccer has only recently changed its tactics. Previously, they sought out players who could afford high-level camps, clinics and developmental teams and poured their resources into the kids who could afford to pay for the privilege.
Many other sports used the same blueprint. Find "elite" competitors and coach the daylights out of them.
What sports like soccer found out was that their method was really good at filling the rosters of Saint Whoever High, creating an exclusionary structure that developed individual talent but left a competitiveness chasm.
What soccer realized is they needed to develop the players at Downtown High in order to create more competition among teams and, in turn, that competition would force the driven, passionate and dedicated to develop themselves.
Baseball has been slower on the uptake, but developing players who can't buy their opportunities has been a change in the last decade or so that is slowly paying off for baseball.
Unfortunately, we still have a very "isn't that so cute" approach to women's sports. Here, use this girls' ball, hit from the ladies' tee...oh, and here, wear a skirt.
The plan is simple...we kill the Batman. No wait. That's a different plan.
The plan is simple: put girls on the same playing field--in every meaning--and they will find their way to the same playing field as men when they grow into women. The girls that are driven with a passion for the game will find a way to compete with boys, in the same way the Downtown High soccer players compete against Saint Whoever.
Likewise, some boys, not wanting to be bested by a girl, will learn how to compete harder, which makes the sport better overall. Most importantly, because some girls will rise up and be better than some boys, boys and men everywhere will come to respect women differently that they do now...which for some men is not at all.