Mamie Johnson played baseball for the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro Leagues. In 1953, at the age of 18, she was scouted by the Clowns. She was one of only three women to play professional men's baseball. The integration of the Negro Leagues and the Major leagues shortened her career to three years. Her inspirational story is written in a novel entitled A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Y. Green. In 2008, Major League Baseball arranged a Negro League Draft in which all surviving Negro Leagues players were drafted by Major league teams. Johnson was drafted to the Washington Nationals.
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