Before he managed the Dodgers for 20 years, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame, this legend of the diamond struck out 25 playing for a Schenectady, NY team.
Kelsie Whitmore had played professional baseball before, but this weekend in Staten Island, she did something no woman had done before...be in the starting lineup.
Andrew Jackson Leonard began his professional baseball career over 150 years ago. He played for the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
Jackson Leonard signed what is known to be one of the oldest contracts in the sport in 1871, just a few years after he started getting paid to play back in 1869...