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Nosauz, I think you were disagreeing with something that I wasn't saying - I agree with you that Aoba will always value mens (boys) baseball over womens (girls). She (rightly) sees herself as a competitor of the highest order and any environment that wasn't the top of the age-appropriate baseball universe wouldn't satisfy her. She'd rather be given the chance to compete against the boys and fail than succeed against women.
Kou may in fact still play in part because Aoba loves baseball, but that only supports the larger point that his feelings for the game itself are less clear. He loves being very good at something, as almost any boy his age would, but he's not terribly concerned with being the center of attention. I think the game's connections to the Tsukishima sisters are far more important to him than the game itself.
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