Mamie johnson biography

Mamie "Peanut" Johnson pitched in the Negro League in the early 1950s.  She attempted to tryout for the AAGPBL in 1951, but was not allowed to do so because she was black.  At the 2006 Players Association Reunion in Houston, the AAGPBL Players Association Board of Directors voted to grant Mamie an Honorary Membership.

Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, one of a handful of women to play in baseball’s Negro leagues in the early 1950s — and the only one known to pitch — died on Monday December 18, 2017  in a Washington hospital.

She was 82.

She had been admitted to the hospital because of problems with her pacemaker, her stepdaughter Yvonne Livingston said. Johnson lived in Washington.

The Negro leagues were waning when Johnson joined the Indianapolis Clowns in 1