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Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert (August 29, 1913 – January 7, 1987) [1] was one of the first female American pitchers in professional baseball history. She was 17 years old when she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.
This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this does not happen, the official scorer awards ...
Widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, Maddux is the only pitcher in MLB history to win at least 15 games for 17 straight seasons. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He also holds the record for most Gold Gloves by any player with 18, and most putouts by a pitcher with 546, including a tied live-ball-era record of 39 putouts in a season ...
The film earned an estimated $1.7 million at the North American box office in 1952. [25] In 1999, he ranked number 12 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, [26] and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Since he played before the Phillies adopted uniform numbers, the block-letter "P" from the ...
Schueler played baseball at Campolindo High School in Moraga, California as a left-handed pitcher.In 1993, Schueler became the first woman to be drafted by an MLB team when the Chicago White Sox picked her directly out of high school in the 43rd round (1208th pick overall) of the 1993 MLB draft. [2]
Pitcher for the Montreal Expos (1987) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1989) Josh Fogg: Pitcher for the Chicago White Sox (2001), Pittsburgh Pirates (2002–2005), Colorado Rockies (2006–2007, 2009), and Cincinnati Reds (2008) Bill Graham: Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1966) and New York Mets (1967) Lefty Guise: Pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds (1940)
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In 2018, she struck out seventeen batters in a youth women's competition. [4] She was the first woman selected to the Baseball Victoria under-16 team, and was the first female pitcher for the Victorian Summer Baseball League; [3] she pitched to a 0.00 earned run average in the under-16 tournament, [5] which consisted of the best 200 players in ...