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WHO?S THE BEST FEMALE PITCHER?

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WHO?S THE BEST FEMALE PITCHER THERE EVER WAS?
JACKIE MITCHELL! JACKIE MITCHELL BECAUSE
AT SEVENTEEN SHE STRUCK OUT INEQUALITY
TEACHING WOMEN TO BE ALL THEY COULD BE

JACKIE ONCE STRUCK OUT NINE MEN IN A ROW
THEN CAME THE DAY SHE FACED MURDERER?S ROW
THE NEW YORK YANKEES BARNSTORMED INTO TOWN
THEY WON THE GAME BUT THEY LEFT WITH A FROWN

PITCHING FOR A MEN?S TEAM FROM TENNESEE
JACKIE MITCHELL MADE BASEBALL HISTORY
IN THE FIRST INNING JACKIE WALKED TO THE MOUND
SIXTY FEET AWAY THE BABE TOWERED ABOVE GROUND

WITH A SIDE ARM MOTION SHE THREW HER SINKER BALL
TWICE THE SULTAN OF SWAT SWATTED NOTHING AT ALL
HER LAST BALL CAUGHT THE CORNER OF THE PLATE
STRUCK OUT BY A WOMAN WAS THE BABE?S FATE!

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LOU GEHRIG THE IRON HORSE CAME UP TO BAT
THREE TIMES HE FANNED AND DOWN HE SAT
THE CROWD CHEERED THERE WAS PLENTY OF TALK
UP STEPPED LAZZERI WHO ESCAPED WITH A WALK

SOME SAY JACKIE MITCHELL WAS BORN TOO SOON
FOR THE NEXT DAY THEY PRICKED JACKIE?S BALLOON
LANDIS CANCELLED HER CONTRACT FOR DOUBLE A
THEN TOOK AWAY THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO PLAY

THERE?S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! POUTING?S FINE
AS LONG AS MEN HAVE THE SOLE RIGHT TO WHINE
THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR WOMEN IN THE MEN?S GAME
OUR HEROES COULDN?T BE SHAMED BY A DAME!

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Joe Pickering Jr. Songwriter King of the Road music publisher BMI and copyright owner
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