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Red Sox face Lizzie “Queen of the Diamond” Murphy

Massachusetts has two famous women named Lizzie and one everyone can recognize since a little ditty is attached to Lizzie Borden’s name and heinous act via the ability to handle an ax.

A second Lizzie also is famous, but history has not been diligent about providing the respect certainly due – that is Lizzie Murphy “The Queen of the Diamond.”

Lizzie played first base against the Red Sox in 1922, but you will not find her listed in the servers at Baseball Reference since it was not a real game, but an exhibition game on August 14th to raise funds for the family of Tommy McCarthy, who had recently died.