November 2018 - Virne Gilbert- Pomegranate Packs-a-Punch

Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert (August 29, 1913 – January 7, 1987) 

Virne Gilbert was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. At 17-years-old, she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts against the New York Yankees on April 2, 1931. The first batter she faced was Babe Ruth, followed by Lou Gehrig, the deadliest hitting duo in baseball history. Mitchell struck them both out. “Girl Pitcher Fans Ruth and Gehrig,” read the headline in the next day’s sports page of the New York Times, beside a photograph of Mitchell in uniform. In an editorial, the paper added: “The prospect grows gloomier for misogynists.” Mitchell’s unusual baseball career, however, wasn’t over. In an era before televised games, when blacks as well as women were unofficially barred from major-league baseball, an ersatz troupe of traveling teams barnstormed the nation, mostly playing in towns that lacked professional squads. In 1937 she retired from baseball and went to work for her father’s optical business in Tennessee.

The Cocktail:

Pomegranate Packs-a-Punch
2 cups pomegranate juice
1 cup cranberry juice
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup dark rum
1 bottle of blanc de blancs sparkling wine
2 pomegranates sliced into rounds

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: juicy

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