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A female pitcher out-performed Babe Ruth so well that he forced the ABL to ban women from playing baseball out of embarrassment/jealousy/scumbag misogyny.

Once upon a time, a woman named Jackie Mitchell strode to the mound in an exhibition game for her team, the Chattanooga Lookouts, a AA squad. The starting pitcher had just been pulled and her manager, Bert Niehoff put her in to face a pair of decent hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

In front of a crowd of four thousand, Mitchell calmly went on to strike out both players in succession, shocking both the fans and the duo of sluggers who failed to connect on a single pitch.

After the game, Babe Ruth went on to rail against the potential of women in baseball, loathing the potential for the integration of the MLB to all sexes:

"I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day."

In a blatant attempt to soothe Ruth’s bruised ego, baseball’s commissioner, Kenesaw Landis, voided Jackie Mitchell’s contract in an attempt to protect Mitchell from the sport he claimed was “too strenuous” for women. In 1952, major league baseball would formally ban the signing of women to contracts, a ban that remained until 1992.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/848071-are-women-the-next-demographic-to-integrate-into-major-league-baseball

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