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GIRL PITCHER RIVALS SANTA FOR FAN HAILGets Letters Addressed to “The Girl Who Fanned Babe Ruth’'; Contract Signed''Jackie1' Mitchell, the girl southpaw who will pitch for the House of David against the State Hospital Grays here Monday night is something like Santa Claus.The similarity isn't due at all to her generosity in giving effortless trips to first base but to the fact that- letters which are dropped in the mail with no more of an address than “The Girl pitcher” or “The Girl Who Fanned Babe Ruth’’ reach uer front all points of the United Stales. She has received a number ol them. Postal officials who became familiar with her performances through the sporting columns add a litiic notation to trysueh-an-such a league and the letters are delivered.Miss Mitchell gets bushels of fun mail of ah sorts. She has had dozens of invitations to marry men she has never seen. The most curious one she ever received was a twenty-four page manuscript from a person icilmg her just how to pitch a baseball. She isn't interested in the marriage proposals and she learned her pitching on the baseball diamond and not from a correspondence school.Ail uncertainty whether Jackie would pitch for the House of David was eliminated yesterday when she signed a contract with the Bearded Nine to pitch for 51,000 month and It was definitely announced that she wouuld pitch here.The contract gives the House of David team its third big crowd-drawing feature—the beards, the lights, and the first and only girl puchcr in organized baseball.Monday night's game under the lights is to start at S;30. Speaking of pitching contracts, an offer by the New 'York Yankees to Bob McNamara.. liuricr for the Grays, was repeated in sporting news this week.
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Sat, Jul 15, 1933
Page 11
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