Today I Found Out
The First Person to Play for Both Baseball’s NL and AL All-Star Teams was a Woman (2015x34)
: 16, 2015
→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/→“Little Mac” McCarthy- Boston Red Sox great in the 1880s and 1890s. The game featured the Boston Red Sox, World Series champs only three seasons ago, versus a group of professional baseball players, some who actually played in the majors and others who made their living barnstorming.
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http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/first-person-play-major-league-baseballs-national-league-american-league-star-teams-woman-lizzie-queen-baseball-murphy/
Resources/Further Reading:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/murphy.html
http://warrenhof.com/Inductees/WarrenHOF_lizzie_spike_murphy.htm
http://irishecho.com/2011/02/hibernian-chronicle-lizzie-murphy-makes-history-2/
http://cnnsi.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1077366/index.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=YijlSyl2vW4C&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=lizzie+murphy&source=bl&ots=6rmzzCCfMa&sig=BrygSY50vOVB3gco_7O5KbiUTAU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=75UfU4DgLoPDoAST3oAY&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=lizzie%20murphy&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=FEkgMoEMVkAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q=Lizzie%20Murphy&f=false
http://archive.is/Pv70Q
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/07/there-once-was-a-17-year-old-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth-and-lou-gehrig-back-to-back
Image Credit (thank you)
http://warrenhof.com/Publish%20Folder/lizzie_murphy.jpg
http://warrenhof.com/photogallery/archives_1922_lizzie_murphy_Harris2.jpg
http://app.providencejournal.com/hercules/allaccess/images/devices_stack_rolledpaper.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/1909_Cleveland_Naps.jpg
http://baseballhall.org/sites/default/files/styles/fullscreen_image_popup/public/externals/d5dd1c9452460e02e1d1dd9e4ef761c5?itok=_SAHkn9I
http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/Jackie-Mitchell-631.jpg__800x600_q85_crop.jpg
http://natedsanders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Babe-Didrikson-Zaharias.jpg