"You play like a girl!" used to be one of baseball's classic insults. Not anymore. Softball diva Jennie Finch has made it cool to not only throw like a girl, but to run, field and hit like one, too. Not since Babe Ruth has a player dominated so completely from the pitching rubber and the batter's box, and she even gives the Bambino a run for his money in the charisma department. Jennie has also accomplished something Ruth never could: She is showing the boys it's okay to be one of the girls. This is her story…

GROWING UP

Jennie Finch was born on September 3, 1980, in La Mirada, California. Jennie's parents, Doug and Bev, already had two boys, Shane and Landon. Both loved baseball and played competitively, but it wasn't until Jennie took up the game that the family really got serious about it.

La Mirada offered organized ball on a year-round basis. Jennie joined her first league, L'il Miss T-Ball, after her fifth birthday. She was one of those kids who excelled at a number......

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