#Negro league baseball

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August 27,1939. Newspaper

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Mamie Johnson was born on September 27, 1935. When she was only seven years old, she would play baseball every day. At 17 years old, Ms. Johnson was rejected as a team member by the white Female Baseball League. This unfair treatment and prejudice became her own victory. She proclaimed, "If I had played with white girls, I would have been just another player, but now I am somebody who has done something that no other woman has done."

In 1953, at the age of 19, she became a member of the Indianapolis Clowns baseball club and pitched for three years. That same year, Johnson finished with an 11-3 record. In 1954, she went 10-1, and in 1955, she finished 12-4. She hit between .252 and .284 in each season. When she wasn’t pitching, she played second base. During her tenure, she won 33 games and lost 8 games. Her batting average ranged from .262 to .284. Of this opportunity, she exclaimed, "Just to know that you were among some of the best male ballplayers that ever picked up the bat, made all of my baseball moments great moments."

For two seasons as a member of the Clowns, Johnson was a teammate of future home run leader Hank Aaron. She also credits her pitching success to a lesson she learned from “Satchel” Paige who taught Johnson to throw her curveball. “He just showed me how to grip the ball to keep from throwing my arm away, ‘cause I was so little.”

“Peanut” Johnson was one of three women, and the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro Leagues.

She was a licensed nurse for 30 years after her baseball playing days. Mamie Johnson died on December 18, 2017, in a Washington, D.C.

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Paintings by Tim Kerr

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[thechanelmuse]

Three Professional Baseball Pioneers 

They all played in the previously all-male Negro League for the Indianapolis Clowns: 

Marcenia Lyle “Toni Tomboy” Stone, the first female player in the league 

Constance “Connie” Morgan, who was taken under the wing of Satchel Paige and learned what is considered to be an “unhittable curveball”

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, the first female pitcher in the league

“People weren’t ready for me.”—Toni Stone

Honorable mention

We can’t forget about Miss Mo’ne Davis. She’s the first girl in Little League World Series history to pitch a (shutout) winning game for the Taney Dragons of Philadelphia in 2014. Her pitching was compared to the throwing motion of major league pitcher Jonathan Papelbon. She pitched at over 70 mph. 

She also plays basketball and has expressed interest in playing in the WNBA.

But for now, the 20-year-old plays softball for Hampton University.

#toni stone #marcenia stone #connie morgan #mamie peanut johnson #mamie johnson #mo'ne davis #negro league baseball #baseball #softball #sports

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Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson two of America's greatest athletes.

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Say Hey!!!

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1945 KC Monarchs

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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) announced it has been awarded a $1 million grant from Bank of America in support of the museum’s $25 million capital campaign to build a new 30,000 square-foot facility.

#black history #african american #baseball #sports #negro league baseball #nlbm #negro league baseball museum

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Meghan and cousin Mookie Betts makes the big board at Dodgers game.

PS: Meghan Markle's great-great-uncle Bill 'Happy' Evans played 11 seasons in the Negro Leagues including the legendary 1931 Homestead Grays.

Credit: elidelajandro

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WWII NEW ORLEANS BLACK AMERICAN MAGAZINE

A rare and original New Orleans magazine for and by the Black American community. “ The Negro South “ for February 1946, Volume 4.  A great source of information with great articles, photograph and advertisement of the time.

Covering Music, sports , politics and socials of New Orleans during WWII.  With advertising for iconic Nola joints like the DEW DROP INN ,  Elbert Ellis HORSE SHOW BAR , HAYES CHICKEN SHACK and more.

For baseball fans a fantastic article on Johnny Wright , the New Orleans legend who broke Baseball’s color line along Jackie Robinson . A former Negro league pitcher who was signed by the Dodgers and was far more than merely Jackie Robinson’s roommate..

For the boxing fans an article on Heavyweight Champion and Black American hero Joe Louis, more a gossip article about his relationship with Marva, his first wife. 

A political article about Black American artists of the time  and their compromise with their community,  Should Artists Become Race Leaders ?? featuring Lena Horne and others.

All in all a fantastic magazine, a slice of the Black American life in a time and place.

Item No. E4982

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[pwlanier]

A pair of issues of the Colored Baseball and Sports monthly including:

Number 1 (September, 1934) and Number 2 (October, 1934).

Christie’s

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