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Mo'ne Ikea Davis (born June 24, 2001) [3] is an American former Little League Baseball pitcher and former Hampton University softball player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.She was one of two girls who played in the 2014 Little League World Series and was the first girl to earn a win and to throw a shutout in Little League World Series history.
Toni Stone (July 17, 1921 – November 2, 1996), born as Marcenia Lyle Stone, was an American female professional baseball player who played in predominantly male leagues. In 1953, she became the first woman to play as a regular on an American major-level professional baseball team [ 1 ] [ 2 ] when she joined the Indianapolis Clowns in the ...
Mamie "Peanut" Johnson (September 27, 1935 – December 18, 2017) was an American professional baseball player who was one of three women, and the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro leagues. Early life
Early on, she says people see her on the field as a 12-year-old boy; in many ways Spencer's Stone acts like a 12-year-old boy, obsessed with baseball, talking compulsively, optimistic and naive.
FILE - Former All American Girls Professional Baseball player Maybelle Blair before a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Washington Nationals, on July 24, 2022, in Phoenix.
Founded for similar reasons as the AAGPBL, the National Girls Baseball League was in operation from 1944 to 1954. In 1946, former player Edith Houghton became the first woman to work as an independent scout in Major League Baseball when she was hired by the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League. [6]
Tony Clark: (2009) MLB Tonight (now executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association) Joey Cora: (2013) MLB Tonight (now Detroit Tigers third base coach) Fran Charles: (2013–2022) MLB Tonight, Hot Stove, and MLB Central; Alexa Datt: (2018–2021) Quick Pitch, The Rundown [16] (now reporter/anchor for Bally Sports Midwest)
Ila Jane Borders (born February 18, 1975) is an American former left-handed pitcher in college and independent professional baseball player. As a female pitcher in men's leagues, Borders achieved numerous baseball milestones at the college and professional levels, including being the first female pitcher to start and win a men's professional baseball game.