$1.(1)$ In $1943,$ when many professional baseball players were away at war, baseball executives formed the All$-$American Girls$$ Professional Baseball League, which operated until $1954.(2)$ The $$girls$$ were women. $(3)$ They were required to avoid profanity and liquor, eat and live only in places approved by the league$$s management, wear lipstick, play baseball in short skirts rather than pants, and be chaperoned when on dates. $(4)$ They were lectured on $$proper$$ feminine conduct, such as not talking too loudly in public. $(5)$ The women in the league endured a degree of sexism and outside control that no woman athlete would tolerate today.