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Mary Elizabeth Murphy (April 13, 1894 – July 27, 1964), known as "The Queen of Baseball", was the first woman to play baseball against major league players, in 1922. She played baseball for seventeen years as a first baseman; she also played on several all-star teams and was the first person of either sex to play on both American and National league baseball All-Star teams.
Through the elections for 2024, a total of 346 people will have been inducted, including 274 former professional players, 39 executives/pioneers, 23 managers, and 10 umpires. [2] Each is listed showing his primary position; that is, the position or role in which the player made his greatest contribution to baseball according to the Hall of Fame.
Saville was born Philip Saffer on 28 October 1927 at Marylebone, London (in later life he gave his birth year as 1930, a date repeated in all his obituaries), [5] son of Louis Saffer (who later assumed the anglicized form of the family name, "Saville", chosen by his father, Joseph Saffer, a master tailor), a travelling salesman for a clothing company, and Sadie Kathleen (known as "Kay"), née ...
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Perhaps the best known young woman playing baseball in the early 1920s was Rhode Island's Lizzie Murphy. She was the first woman to play baseball against major league players, in 1922. [20] A first baseman, she played for the Providence (RI) Independents, and was praised by newspaper reporters for her fielding skills.
1920: Fritz Pollard (1894–1986), one of the first two African-American players; also the first (co-)head coach (see below) 1920: Bobby Marshall (1880–1958), one of the first two African-American players; 1927: Lou Molinet (1904–1976), first Hispanic, Cuban and Latin American player; 1927: Sneeze Achiu (1902–1989), first player of East ...
In 1901, she married George Warner. Both had been former residents of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. [5] After leaving baseball, she continued to play tennis, and according to her obituary, she frequently attended local baseball games. After her husband's death on January 25, 1911, she embarked upon a business career. She died in Philadelphia in ...
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.