‘I hope they understand what they’re doing is important.’ The Humboldt Park Gators, a rare all-girls baseball team, poised to begin inaugural season

The Humboldt Park Gators are a baseball team composed entirely of girls. That’s still a rarity in Chicago, not to mention the rest of the country. The Gators are about to start their first full season — the pandemic delayed it for a year — and most of their competition will be boys.