MLB The Show 24 looks to the past and future for women in baseball

In addition to Women Pave Their Way, MLB The Show 24 will also bring a second season of its Storylines mode featuring the Negro Leagues that will include “The Trailblazer” Toni Stone — “the first woman to play professional baseball regularly in a major men’s professional baseball league.”

Of the big annual sports franchises, Sony San Diego Studio’s MLB The Show is rapidly becoming the most interesting — the studio is following up its tremendous Storylines mode about baseball’s Negro Leagues with a new career mode centered on women.

MLB The Show 24, however, feels unique in the considered and thoughtful way it’s starting to round out its excellent baseball sim with narrative modes that engage with both the past and future of the sport.