17 year old Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931.
Ruth's fee fees were hurt and threw a tantrum on how women were too delicate to play baseball. Due to his toddler like antics, women were banned from being signed in the MLB 1992.
![A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared that women were unfit to play baseball as the game was "too strenuous."[5][12] However, Mitchell continued to play professionally, barnstorming with the House of David, a men's team famous for their very long hair and long beards. 13) While traveling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity. [14]
Mitchell retired in 1937 at the age of 23 after
becoming furious since her story about playing baseball was being used as something of a side show - once being asked to pitch while riding a donkey. [12] She refused to come out of retirement when the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed in 1943.[14 Major League Baseball would formally ban the signing of women to contracts on June 21, 1952, [12] The ban lasted until 1992 when Carey Schueler was drafted by the Chicago White Sox for the 1993 season. [15][16](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:w6h6dprbvdrbaidpnbjhj7yi/bafkreifknnwtoau7qv2qfyxsxv5dr2l6rzhsy565vobctbezvfdgcdpiee@jpeg)
Yet again. Men throwing tantrums and going "nuh uh!" everytime a woman proves she's better than them. Since time immemorial. Women are smarter = men get pissy, force us out of schools = they think their lower scores are the "baseline" = get pissy when we go back to school and prove they're worse. 🤭
A friend told me she signed up for calculus in high school, but when she entered the classroom, the teacher took one look at her and told her she was in the wrong classroom. All the other students were boys. She persisted in staying, but then the teacher ended up seducing her.
