In Tracy Everbach's article on Ebscohost, "Breaking Baseball Barriers: The 1953–1954 Negro League and Expansion of Women's Public Roles" (2005), Everbach explains: "Three women earned spots alongside the men in the Negro Baseball League during the 1953 and 1954 seasons. Women second basemen, Toni Stone and Connie Morgan, and pitcher Mamie “Peanut” Johnson” (Everbacli, p. 14). on a team called the Indianapolis Clowns, and Stone also played for another team called the Kansas City Monarchs. These women were recruited as novelties and earned actual spots after white organized baseball became racially integrated. These women did well from the point athletically and earned the respect of their teammates as they took to the field to play with and against men Everbach tells us, “The coverage shows that these three pioneers broke gender barriers two decades before Congress of the United States approved Title IX” (Everbacli, page 14). This was a big deal because Title IX was a law enacted to ensure that women received equal funding and facilities in sports. These women were participating in a men's sport at a time when there was no equality between sports. Finally, women had entered the public sphere, working in factories and the defense industry, to replace men who had gone to war abroad. Everbach describes that: “In July 1944, nineteen million women worked outside the home, while in 1941 only five million women participated in the workforce” (Everbachli, page 15). So Stone, Morgan, and Johnson were a unique breed of women, not because they were African American, but because they played professional baseball for a living while other women were in the