Jackie Mitchell

Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. She was 17 years old when she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession. ^{Jackie Mitchell, American baseball pitcher (d. 1987)}

29 August 1913

Born on the same birth date (29 August 1913): Len Butterfield

Born on the same birth day (29 August): Albert Lebrun • Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States • Charalampos Xanthopoulos • Daryll Neita • Gottfried John • James Quesada • John of Artois, Count of Eu • Kevin Kaesviharn • Leonardo De Lorenzo • Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony • Nagarjuna (actor) • Noah Syndergaard • Sandford Schultz • Vincent Enyeama • Vivien Thomas

Born in the same month (August 1913): Don DeFore • Jack Dreyfus • Makarios III • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez • Richard Stone • Walt Kelly • Wesley Addy • Wilbur Norman Christiansen