Baseball for everyone?

I was starting to do the research for my post on upcoming baseball books and a couple of titles caught my eye. I don’t know why, but they struck a nerve. (Full disclosure: I have not read these books.)

The first is Baseball Facts for Men: Fascinating History, Records, Players and Ballparks. No author listed.

What do you mean, “for men“? Are the facts different for women? Are these more “manly” facts?

The next was Baseball Stories for Seniors: 40 Remarkable True Stories from Baseball History in Easy to Read Large Print, by Troy Oakes (and yes the part about large print is right in the title). Maybe these have to deal with old stories. Goodness knows as I’ve gotten older I find it more and more difficult to keep up with the contemporary game. Used to be a team would manage to play an entire season with 45 players. Now they’ve used that many by the All Star break. For me, “old” stories used to mean reading about Ruth, Cobb, Gehrig, and Paige. Now Schmidt, Seaver, Piazza, and Reggie probably qualify as old.

These reminded me of some books published more than a decade ago, including

Questions Women Want To Know About Baseball, by Sophia Grace
It Takes More Than Balls: The Savvy Girls’ Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball, by Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney. More on how that book came to be, here.
The Cool Chick’s Guide to Baseball, by Lisa Martin

Maybe it’s inappropriate for me to ask, but why is there a need for separate explanations for the genders?

Also, these days, I don’t think it’s inappropriate to wonder if Men and Seniors might be AI generated. The topics seem broad enough to just as a bot to come up with some related stories pertaining to the books’ titles and just go with it (especially since Men is not attributed to an author).