Mo’ne Davis made Little League history earlier in August of this year when she became the first female throw a shutout – giving away only two hits during the Little League World Series. Davis stands on the shoulders of pioneering women who blazed trails in the sport of baseball including Kathryn “Tubby” Jonson Massar (who played Little League in 1950 – leading to a ban on girls playing that was not lifted until 1972), Nancy Lotsey (who played in the New Jersey Small Fry League in 1963), and Edith Houghton (who scouted for the Philadelphia Phillies 1946-19510. 

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