Posts tagged "women"
Uhm. Yikes. This seems like a story with the words “bad idea” written all over it.
Personal survey says no.
I mean, this crap…
I want no women in my life.
[…]
I could have conquered Europe—all of it—but I had women in my life.
Henry II in The Lion in Winter [by James Goldman]
I’m not picky, as long as she’s smart, pretty, sweet, and gentle, and tender, and refined, and lovely, and carefree…
The Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
But the grandmama of all female pitchers has to be Jackie Mitchell, who struck out not only Babe Ruth but also Lou Gherig when the Yankees stopped in Tennessee during their drive back home from spring training. Mitchell used a devastating sinking curve to shoot down the Bronx Bombers in 1931, when she was just 17.
According to a Library of Congress researcher, that episode led Major League Baseball’s commissioner to ban women from playing the game.
Unbelievable.
Also, [sic].
