Mighty Jackie

• The setting: Chatanooga Tennesee, 1931, USA.
• The baseball game is the NY Yankees against the Chatanooga Lookouts.
• Jackie Mitchell was a girl on the Chatanooga team.
• She was 17 years old.
• girls did not play major league baseball
• the newspaper said that she would "swing a mean lipstick" instead of a bat, and that she was no better than a "trained seal" behind the plate
• Jackie was a pitcher (throws the ball)
• Jackie played ball with her father since she was young
• throwing balls like a girl was an insult
• when she was eight, Dazzy Vance from the Brooklyn Dodgers taught her how to pitch
• when she was pitching at the game, the crowd was waiting for her to make a mistake
• Jackie strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, two of the best baseball players
• Babe Ruth says he'll never play with a woman again
• the crowd cheers for Jackie