Who is Jackie mitchell?

Answer 1

In 1931, Jackie Mitchell became the first female to pitch in a Major League Baseball game, pitching for the Chattanooga Lookouts. In a back-to-back exhibition game against the NY Yankees she struck out Lou Gherig and Babe Ruth. The following day, Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Landis voided Jackie's contract on the grounds that baseball was "too strenuous" for a woman. Courtesy of GROT International