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Mamie Johnson, known as Peanut, on her back porch in Washington in 2010, holding some of the balls she used to throw ceremonial first pitches.
Eli Meir Kaplan for The New York Times; thumbnail, NoirTech Research, 1954
Mamie Johnson
Died on December 18, 2017 at age 82
Johnson was one of a handful of women to play in baseball’s Negro leagues in the early 1950s — and the only one known to pitch.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.