Ila Borders

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ila Borders (born February 18, 1975), is a former left-handed pitcher in college and independent professional baseball player. Borders was the first woman pitcher to start a men's NCAA or NAIA college baseball game, playing for Southern California College in the 1994-96 seasons and Whittier College in the 1997 season. She became one of the first female pitchers in integrated men's professional baseball (female players such as Toni Stone had performed in the Negro Leagues) when in 1997 she signed with the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League, playing in her first regular season game on May 31, 1997 against the Sioux Falls Canaries.