Mo’ne Davis By Albert Watson For Harper’s Bazaar Women Who Dare.

2014 WOMEN WHO DARE: MO’NE DAVIS
“With a 70-mile-an-hour fastball, Little League baseball player Mo’ne Davis (who, yes, “throws like a girl”) went straight to the big leagues. The 13-year-old is the first girl in history to pitch a shutout game in the Little League World Series. But Davis is as cool as her arm is fast, noting, “Basketball is my favorite sport, actually.” She knew she had power on the mound at “nine or 10. I just had control.” The ball would always land where she wanted it to, in the catcher’s glove following a futile swing. And Davis landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
How are the boys playing with a girl, anyway? “Most want to hit against me, just to say they got a hit,” she says shyly. How often does that happen? “Not very often. Maybe at the end of the game when I’m tired, but that’s pretty much it.
There is no sign of Davis getting tired anytime soon. Her caramel eyes light up at the idea of college. “I want to play basketball for UConn.” But until then there’s sports and school, where the other students were told to “act normal” around her, she explains, “because it’s been kinda, like, crazy.”
But normality is not what Davis is interested in. Note that her eyes look like a tiger’s and she replies, “I’m tiger-hearted.” Since when? “I dunno.” She shrugs. “Since day one.”

Snapshot: Mo’ne Davis By Albert Watson For Harper’s Bazaar Women Who Dare
Source: Harper’s Bazaar