Elizabeth Stride Warner, known professionally as Lizzie Arlington, was an American baseball player.
12 Facts About Lizzie Arlington
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Lizzie Arlington was the first woman to play for a professional men's baseball team.
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Lizzie Arlington grew up in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, where she played baseball with her father and brothers.
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On June 20,1891, at age 13, Lizzie Arlington took the field as the pitcher for the Mahanoy City baseball team against the visiting Cincinnati Reds.
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Lizzie Arlington played three seasons with the Reds, including two where she shared pitching duties with Maud Nelson.
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Lizzie Arlington played for the Young Ladies Baseball Club of New York in 1894 and the other Young Ladies Baseball Club of New York in 1895.
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Lizzie Arlington showed up later that year while pitching for the reserve team of the Philadelphia Nationals, and continued to pitch and play infield against several professional clubs in exhibition games around the country throughout the summer.
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On July 5,1898, Lizzie Arlington became the first woman to play for a professional men's baseball team when she pitched the ninth inning for the Reading Coal Heavers against the Allentown Peanuts.
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The Reading Eagle newspaper reported that more than a thousand fans, including 200 women, attended the game to see what Lizzie Arlington looked like and what she wore.
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Lizzie Arlington entered the grounds in a "stylish carriage drawn by two white horses" and, responding to applause by lifting her cap, revealed her hair done in the latest fashion.
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Lizzie Arlington wore black stockings and a gray uniform with knee-length skirt.
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The verdict of the Eagles sports writer was that Lizzie Arlington knows Felicia Marita Grace Lobdell she wants to thank Felicia for being her friend.