Articles tagged with: heroic women

Jackie, the Girl Who Threw Out Two Boys of Summer Legends

_-mitchelljackie-vs-ruth-and-gehrigJackie Mitchell was a natural but never made it to the big leagues because she was born into the wrong gender at the wrong time. Still, she made a splash by fanning two of baseball's greatest: the Sultan of Swat and the Iron Horse, in succession. Instead of a big league contract, Jackie's achievement got her minor league contract invalidated by the baseball commissioner because baseball was too strenuous a game for delicate women. She didn't know that of course.