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Baker has been having fun at the expense of boys and as a ground-breaking athlete for years. She learned to throw the fluttery pitch from former major leaguer Joe Niekro when she was seven years old.

Baker was playing baseball in the Plant City Little League at age seven when she started pestering Niekro, her coach, to teach her how to throw the elusive pitch.

He relented, teaching her a secret, and a star was born.

Baker has recorded two perfect games with the pitch, including one in a Little League All-Star game in Haines City in 2009. She's won many games, mixing the knuckleball with a curveball and a fastball that has been clocked in the mid-70 miles per hour range of late.

the article is from 2012.