"I don't know what's going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day."
I'm not sure if Babe said that before or after a little 17 year old girl struck him out. But on this day in 1931, Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Women's history is full of well-kept secrets.
On April 2nd, 1931, an event took place in Tennessee that defied the imagination . . Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen year old girl, struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game. Jackie Mitchell, a girl with such a good curveball that she once struck out nine men in a row in a sandlot game, was banned from playing in the pros by none other than baseball commissioner Kenesaw Landis days later, supposedly because the game was "too strenuous" for women.
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