In 1931 the Chattanooga Lookouts hire a girl pitcher named Jackie Mitchell. It was her very first game too. She threw left handed and she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Two legendary baseball players. How her career started that she would wait for her dad to come home .She had used her dad’s baseball mit it was a little big but she maneged to make it work . When he got home they would practice and play ball all day long. Ever sense they do it all the time. Until one day she was in her room and her dad came home. But her mom and dad were talking and so she listened through the thin walls. She heard that her dad lost his job. The  Great  Depression had hit Chattanooga which made life hard. Her dad went on a train to look for other jobs.Then the big game she walked on to the field and waved everyone was screaming.She had even took out some powder and dabbed her nose with it. The game started first up to bat was Babe Ruth himself. Jackie wasn’t nerves at all.She wound up her arm and he swung and missed two times the next pitch was a strike 3 batter out. Jackie struck out Babe Ruth.