“Slippery Sue” Sappho threw sweet, passionate heat for the Attica Athletics and the Lesbos Lavender Sox. Although only a fragment of her stats has survived to the present day, she is remembered as one of the great lyric pitchers of all time, with a fastball that reportedly registered 98 mph on the sapphic meter.
Edna St. Vincent “Babe” Millay played for the Greenwich Village Bohos, burning her bat at both ends. She was awarded a Cy Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her fourth collection, The Earl-Weaver and Other Poems.
Marianne “Big Hat” Moore inhabited imaginary ballparks with real shortstops in them. After a great career with the New York Modernists, she was invited to throw out the first ball on opening day in Eternity.
Elizabeth Barrett “Bullet Bess” Browning was the battery mate of Robert “Yogi” Browning. She was acclaimed for her Sonnets from the Stengelese, the most famous of which begins: How do I pitch thee? Let me count the ways: I pitch thee to the letters, high and tight; Or low and far away, where bat can’t bite; Or in the dirt, which yet thy timber stays
Emily “Wild Nights” Dickinson spent her entire career in the dugout for the Amherst Visionaries. Finally, in the last moments of her life, she was inserted into a game, and heard a pop fly drop to the left of her as she died.
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