Via BBTF, Molly Knight attends a Japanese baseball game and has five takeaways. BBTF focuses on pacing of the game, but I want to highlight this:

At Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) games, women with mini-kegs in their backpacks roam the concourses to sell brews to spectators. The guys in our group loved this, obviously. The three of us women spent the game debating whether it was genius or gross. Our verdict was split. We liked that the women were festive but covered up, dressed like the Rockford Peaches from “A League of Their Own” with uniform tops buttoned up to their clavicles and skorts that fell nearly to their knees. We didn’t like that there were no beer boys, and thought it would have been more fun to have a mix of both. We are also fairly certain that if this were brought to America, beer companies would screw it up by dressing their brand ambassadors in as little clothing as possible, resulting in nine innings of sexual harassment.

I don’t think there would be more sexual harassment based on dress. The kind of harassment Knight is talking about here is bad manners, and a woman in a baseball uniform can be just as alluring as a woman in a skimpy outfit. Young men are going to hit on them, and men of poor upbringing are going to do it in an offensive way.

(Also, offensive behavior gets one tossed from a baseball stadium. So that type of behavior would not last long.)

I am told that baseball has a youth problem. Maybe pretty women selling beer in baseball uniforms can bring some young men back to the game!