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Distinct Figure in Baseball History” Charleston (South Carolina)
Post and Courier
, February 12, 2000; Brent Kelley, “Peanut Johnson: First Woman to Win a Pro Ballgame,”
Sports Collectors Digest
, October 22, 1999.
     
    29 . Mamie Belton Johnson Goodman interview with the author, April 18, 2005; Michele Y. Green,
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson
(New York: Dial Books, 2002), 37; Eugene Meyer, “For Love of the Game,”
Washington Post
, February 24, 1999; Mamie Johnson, Mount Holyoke College Public Lecture, April 18, 2005; Kevin Kernan, “Li’l Lady Dazzled Negro League Hit Men,”
New York Post
, June 3, 2001; Steven Goode, “She Was a Pioneer, Playing Pro Baseball with the Great Ones,”
Hartford Courant
, September 30, 1999; www.visionarypro-ject.org/johnsonmamie .
     
    30 . Green, 49; Norfolk (Virginia)
Journal and Guide
, September 24, 1953; Mamie Belton Johnson Goodman interview with the author, April 18, 2005; “Morning Edition,” National Public Radio, February 18, 2003; Ardell, 189; Norfolk (Virginia)
Journal and Guide
, March 13, 1954.
     
    31 . Donna DeVore interview with Connie Morgan, approximately 1993. Archives of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum of Philadelphia.
     
    32 . Horace Johnson interview with the author, April 14, 2008; Yvonne Morgan Vinson interview with the author, February 25, 2008.
     
    33 . “Constance Morgan, 61 Female National Negro Leaguer,”
Philadelphia Tribune
, October 25, 1996.
     
    34 . Donna DeVore interview with Connie Morgan.
     
    35 . Pollock, 256.
     
    36 . Bill Dunhurt, “Afro Americans Honor Connie Morgan,”
Philadelphia Tribune
, October 19, 1993.
     
    37 . Donna DeVore interview with Connie Morgan.
     
    38 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester, January 3, 1991. Lester private archive.
     
    39 . Ibid.
     
    40 . Pollock, 268–270; Luix Virgil Overbrea,
Chicago Defender
, January 2, 1954.
     
    41 . Letter from Aurelious Alberga to Toni Stone, July 20, 1953. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    42 .
Chicago Defender
, September 24, 1953.
     
    43 . Letter from Syd Pollock to Toni Stone, January 2, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    44 . Baltimore
Afro-American,
February 20, 1954.
     
    45 . Pollock, 112.
     
    46 . Thom Loverro,
The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball
(New York: Checkmate Books, 2003), 52.
     
    47 . Letter from Syd Pollock to Toni Stone, January 2, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    48 . Letter from Bunny Downs to Toni Stone, January 20, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    49 . “Lady Ball Player,” 52.
     
    50 .
Charleston
(West Virginia)
Daily Mail
, October 8, 1953; Letter from Bunny Downs to Toni Stone, January 20, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     

Chapter 9: A Baseball Has 108 Stitches
     
    1 . Bessie Smith, “Long Road” 1931.
     
    2 . Letter from Syd Pollock to Toni Stone, January 19, 1954; letter from Bunny Downs to Toni Stone, January 20, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    3 . Letter from Toni Stone to Syd Pollock, January 26, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    4 . Letter from Toni Stone to T. Y. Baird, February 15, 1954; letter from Toni Stone to T. Y. Baird, February 2, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    5 . Letter from Toni Stone to Bunny Downs, January 26, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    6 . Letter from T. Y. Baird to Toni Stone, March 31, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    7 . Larry Lester, “Only the Stars Come Out at Night,”
Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues
, edited by Leslie A. Heaphy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007), 113.
     
    8 . Thom Loverro,
The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball
(New York: Checkmate Books, 2003), 310.
     
    9 . Lester, 120; Michael Harkness-Roberto and Leslie A. Heaphy, “The Monarchs: A Brief History of the Franchise,”
Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro