425: Lizzie Arlington
The First Woman to Play for a Professional Men’s Baseball Team
Born: c.1876
Died: 1919 (according to Wikipedia)
Original Name: Elizabeth Stroud
Lizzie appeared on a minor league team in 1898 for a single game.
She continued to play baseball for many years in smaller leagues.
It would take one hundred ten years for another woman to appear in a minor league game.
Sources:
https://calltothepen.com/2017/07/05/baseball-history-lizzie-arlington-becomes-first-female-player/
http://research.sabr.org/journals/women-players-in-organized-baseball
https://sabr.org/latest/jackson-gibson-early-women-baseball-lizzie-stride-arlington-and-effa-manley