{"id":632,"date":"2020-08-23T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2020-09-06T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T16:06:34","slug":"mammie-johnson-1-of-the-3-who-play-in-the-negro-baseball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/mammie-johnson-1-of-the-3-who-play-in-the-negro-baseball-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammie Johnson: 1 of the 3 who play in the Negro Baseball League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Born in South Carolina in 1935, Mamie Johnson, also known by her nickname “Peanut”, was one of just three women to play in the Negro Baseball League.


<\/a>In 1953, she signed with the Indianapolis Clowns where she became the first female pitcher in the league. Being one of few females playing the league, she attracted a lot of fans and followed through with the hype by showing great skill and courage.

According to A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson<\/a><\/em> by Michelle Y. Green, by the end of her career in 1955, she had a 33\u20138 record.

During an interview with NPR in 2003, Johnson commented, \u201cI met some of the nicest gentlemen I could ever meet and I got the highest respect in the world from all of them.\u201d However, she added, \u201cYou\u2019ve got your gentlemen, and then you\u2019ve got your men.\u201d Some of the \u201cmen\u201d didn\u2019t know how to act, she says, \u201cbut after you prove yourself as to what you came there for, then you don\u2019t have any problem out of them, either. After you strike three or four of them out… you know, it\u2019s alright.\u201d

After her short-lived baseball career, she went on to obtain a nursing degree from North Carolina A&T State University and worked as a nurse for 30 years at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC.

She later operated a Negro-leagues memorabilia shop in Capitol Heights, Maryland.

Sadly, she passed away on December 19, 2017, at the age of 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in South Carolina in 1935, Mamie Johnson, also known by her nickname “Peanut”, was one of just three women to play in the Negro Baseball League. In 1953, she signed with the Indianapolis Clowns where she became the first female pitcher in the league. Being one of few females playing the league, she attracted Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[158,156,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}