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.

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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

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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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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.

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“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.