Women have been doing what men have been doing since the beginning of time and doing it as well,

but they don't get the recognition that they do.

Former Negro League pitcher Mamie Peanut Johnson.

There's no reason to be intimidated when you know what you can do but you have to do.

I knew I have what I had to do and this is what I did.

Why should I be afraid?

Because I know what I'm doing.

Mamie P Johnson, for those who may be hearing that name for the first time,

was one of three women to play professionally in the Negro Leagues.

Yes, I did say three pioneering women who played professionally in the Negro

League. Mamie Peanut Johnson was a five-foot three-inch pitcher in the Negro Leagues. And she tells

this story of her first time playing against the Kansas City Monarchs.

And the Monarchs had a really good player by the name of Hank Bayliss.

And Hank Bayliss gets into the batters box, and I guess he peers out and realizes that the

picture is a woman.

And he stares out there, and he says in a very condescending fashion, what's you doing out there?

You ain't no bigger than a peanut.

And she promptly struck him out.

And she was peanut from that day forward.

Now, as I look at what we've seen happen recently in Major League Baseball,

women have been getting more and more opportunities to feel significant roles

within Major League Baseball franchises and organizations such as Lonnie Murray,

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