Clara Ruth Cook [״Babe״] (June 19, 1921 – July 23, 1996) was an American pitcher who played from 1943 through 1944 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

[1] A fastpitch left hander, Clara Cook was one of the sixty founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League for its inaugural season in 1943.

[3] In the early thirties, a Remington Rand employee named Riley saw Clara while playing sandlot ball with her brothers and some friends.

[3] After graduating from Southside High School, Cook went to work at the Remington Rand plant, where she also helped organize friends to play ball for the company.

[3] Cook entered the league in 1943 with the Rockford Peaches, playing for them in part of the season before joining the Kenosha Comets.

She posted a composite record of 6–17 in 30 games, allowing more runs (177, 100 earned) than any other pitcher to finish with a 4.42 ERA.

Milwaukee defeated the Kenosha Comets in the best-of-seven series, and it took all seven games for the Chicks to be declared the champion team.