Register for our kickoff of the first phase of the SpringMo Black Wellness Initiative

D.C. Intersection To Be Renamed After Negro League’s First Female Pitcher

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, the first woman to pitch in the Negro Leagues and a two-way player, will be memorialized by having a D.C. intersection named after her. On Oct. 11, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed that the “Dave Thomas Circle” intersection will be renamed “Mamie ‘Peanut’ Johnson Plaza,” after the female baseball pitcher who […]