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{{Examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Anime]] series ''[[Princess Nine]]'' is about a whole ''team'' of girls trying to win the Japanese national [[High School]] baseball championship.
* In the same vein, ''[[
* In the manga version of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Panther tries to become a player for the Nasa Aliens, but he is repeatedly rejected by Coach Apollo for being black.
* Kou Shuurei in ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'' sets out to become the first woman to ever hold a position as a government official in a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] to feudal China, after the current Emperor changes the law that previously denied women the right to apply for government positions. Even with the support of the Emperor, she faces quite a bit of opposition, to the point that when an outbreak of plague occurs in the province she's been appointed to, a cult starts a rumor that it's divine punishment for allowing a woman to hold office.
== Comic Books ==
* Aiko Inaba in the ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' [[Spin-Off|spinoffs]] ''Shimura'' and ''Hondo City Justice'', who ended up being the first woman to qualify as a Judge-Inspector in Hondo City despite institutional pressure on her to fail. It helped that her mentor, Shimura, is much more liberal than most of his (then) colleagues.
== Film ==
* The made-for-TV movie ''[[Quarterback Princess]]'', about (you guessed it) a girl who wants to play (American) football.
* The film ''[[A League of Their Own]]'', about a female baseball league formed during World War II.
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== Literature ==
* In literature, Kel in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector of the Small]]'' quartet. She was actually the ''second'' female Pierce character to train for knighthood, but the first was [[Sweet Polly Oliver|dressed as a man at the time]].
** And because of being [[The Chosen One|god-chosen]], magically gifted, friends with the prince and several powerful nobles, etc., the first one was often accused of having cheated her way through.
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* Droushnakovi in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]] is very tall and strong and gifted at martial arts and unarmed combat, but lives on a planet where anything like that is largely a male preserve. She has three older brothers who smuggle her into boys' judo classes, and finds a niche as a royal bodyguard as an adult.
== Live
* Appears in ''[[Without a Trace]]''. A victim of the week turns out to have been a Japanese American who enlisted {{spoiler|and was killed by one of his own teammates because the other guy, already kind of a racist douchebag, cracked from the stress of war}}.
* About half of the victims in ''[[Cold Case]]'' are this. If not more.
* In the ''[[Century City]]'' episode Love and Games, a bionic eyed player has to make an appeal, as bionics aren't allowed to play because bionic parts give them an unfair advantage.
* Baseball comic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170516173252/http://thedugs.com/ The Dugs]'' introduced a female pitcher attempting to break into the major leagues in a story line that beings [https://web.archive.org/web/20150113094134/http://thedugs.com/?p=796 here]. The team and management is less than supportive.▼
== Western Animation ==
* Subverted on ''[[Futurama]]'', when Leela is allowed to become the first female professional Blernsball player only because she's so comically bad that it makes for a good crowd-draw. She eventually makes it into the hall of fame—as the ''worst'' pitcher in history.
** It turned out that she still inspired other female players to turn pro—by making them determined to prove they didn't ''all'' suck that bad.
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** She tries to excuse her quitting by saying she won't play with the skin of a helpless animal. She's then told all the balls are synthetic and the proceeds from buying them go to charity. Denied the ability to lecture everyone, she ''bursts into tears'' and runs off. One of the only times Lisa's ever been called on being a [[Soapbox Sadie]].
** Played straight in another episode where Lisa joins a till-then boys only military academy.
* A one-episode version of this occurs in the penultimate episode of Book One of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Katara has
▲== Webcomics ==
▲* Baseball comic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170516173252/http://thedugs.com/ The Dugs]'' introduced a female pitcher attempting to break into the major leagues in a story line that beings [https://web.archive.org/web/20150113094134/http://thedugs.com/?p=796 here]. The team and management is less than supportive.
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