Clipping:Why women can't play baseball

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Date Sunday, October 3, 1875
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There are some things that women can’t do; the teachings of centuries have established the fact that a woman can’t whistle any more than she can pass a better dressed lady on the street without looking back. Women absolutely cannot shoe horses, fire off a cannon, keep secrets, or pull teeth. And a female woman can’t play base ball. None but a perverted and bald-headed advocate of female suffrage would permit the assumption to dally in his mind that a woman could throw a ball under-handed, or attempt to catch one without shutting both eyes just when she should see the biggest. Now how could a delicately-reared, white-fingered miss get down in the weeds and dust and pick up a hot daisy-cutter waltzing through space at the rate of twenty knots a second? How could an able-bodied young lady jump three feet high and stretching her arms up another three feet take in a crazy fly without tearing the cloth somewhere! Preposterous! Now would it look well for some high-minded graduate of a high-toned Sunday-school to skip over to a sympathizing short-stop and swear at the umpire., quoting an unidentified Illinois newspaper

Source Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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