The Origins of Baseball - Lecture 2

We talk about the incredible true story of Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old girl who made baseball history on April 2nd, 1931, when she struck out two of the greatest hitters of all time—Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig—in a professional game in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Despite the world's skepticism and attempts to dismiss her achievement as a publicity stunt, Jackie remained confident in her abilities and continued pitching throughout her career, insisting until her death that those strikeouts were real.