Mildred Kathryn Earp (October 7, 1925 – June 27, 2017), nicknamed Mid or Millie, was an American female pitcher who played from 1947 to 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
She also hurled a no-hitter game and ranked between the top 10 in several pitching categories during her short stint in the league.
[3][4] She is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, opened in 1988, which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual player.
[5][6] A native of West Fork, Arkansas, Earp started to play softball in a fourth grade league.
Such change adversely affected the performance of underhand pitchers, but it did not disturbed Earp, because she had developed a blazing fastball and a dropping curveball, showing a good command of her pitches.
Earp posted a 20–8 record for a .714 winning percentage in 35 pitching appearances in her first season; collecting a minuscule 0.68 ERA and striking out 192 while walking 32 in 280 innings of work.
Earp, who led a pitching staff that included Alice Haylett (19–11) and Connie Wisniewski (16–14), finished second in strikeouts to Fort Wayne's Dorothy Collins (244), second in winning percentage to Muskegon's Doris Sams (.733), and made her first and only All-Star Team.
With Johnny Rawlings at the helm, Grand Rapids finished in second place with a 65–47 record; dispatched South Bend in the first round of the playoffs, and defeated Racine in the final series, four to three games, to clinch the AAGPBL Championship Title.