Awesome Stuff Women Did

Because women have done more in the past 10,000 years than just pop out babies and make sandwiches.

DISCLAIMER: We make no claim that all women featured here are saints. They did awesome stuff; the women themselves might not have been. Keep that in mind before sending angry notes.

Struck out both Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth as a 17-year-old minor league pitcher, when both Ruth and Gehrig were Yankees. (Jackie Mitchell) ETA: The next day, MLB commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis voided Mitchell’s contract, claiming that baseball was “too strenuous” for women.

Struck out both Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth as a 17-year-old minor league pitcher, when both Ruth and Gehrig were Yankees. (Jackie Mitchell)

ETA: The next day, MLB commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis voided Mitchell’s contract, claiming that baseball was “too strenuous” for women.

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