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Baseball historian John Kovach will discuss Carrie Moyer of Macungie, who became a headline sports story in 1906 when she began to pitch for both local and regional baseball teams. She followed in the footsteps of previous female pitching stars such as Lizzie Arlington (Lizzie Stride) and Maud Nelson (Clementina Brida), both of whom were from Mahanoy City.In her seven-year career, she would earn enough money to put herself through college; become the first female to pitch for a college team (Kutztown Normal) in 1906, and would hurl and win against the Western Bloomer Girls, the premier women's baseball team of the era, which was owned and managed by Maud Nelson. Following her baseball career, Moyer would work in education, and she'd go on to work as one of two women working as State fingerprint experts in the United States.
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