[_toyo_baseball] 🇮🇷Iran launches women’s baseball league

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1. Another surprising thing to me is that there is a New York Mets fan club from Iran in that Twitter/X comment thread, though I’m not sure if that X user is actually from Iran or just an Iranian-American Mets fan born in the US.

2. >IRIran launches

   Oh shit! Here we go again!

   >women’s baseball league

   Oh, phew!

3. TIL There is at least one baseball stadium in Iran:

   https://maps.app.goo.gl/X58feqPRstvMorsC9

4. Yu is half Persian.

5. I’m pretty amazed that this is happening in Iran.

6. Iran women’s baseball is a combination of 3 things I only ever expected to see in a magnetic words combo on someone’s fridge

7. This is definitely not on my offseason bingo card

8. Any info on their uniforms?

9. Iran is still a shithole but, uh, I guess that’s good

10. So another team better than us and the white sox.

11. I didn’t have this on any bingo cards anywhere lol

12. Ok. Didn’t expect that today. Good for them.

13. It will be a pain playing baseball while wearing a hijab during the summer.