Cleveland Guardians 🤖<p>In continuing our celebration of Women’s History Month, we are highlighting some of the incredible women across Cleveland and Major League Baseball history who have broken barriers and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InspireInclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InspireInclusion</span></a> in others.</p><p>After learning her curveball from baseball legend and former Cleveland pitcher, Satchel Paige, Mamie “Peanut” Johnson went 33-8 over three years pitching with the semi-pro Indianapolis Clowns baseball team.</p><p>One of the first women to ever appear in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Phyllis Merhige spent over 40 years in the Big Leagues as the eventual Senior Vice President for Club Relations in the Commissioner’s Office and leading director of all MLB official scorers, in addition to forging extremely close relationships within Cleveland and other clubs.</p><p>Cleveland native and Baseball For All founder, Justine Siegal, became the first woman to throw batting practice to Minor and Major Leaguers when she tossed to Cleveland in 2011 in Goodyear, Arizona. Siegal was also the first woman to coach for a professional men’s baseball team and the first woman to coach for an MLB organization.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ForTheLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForTheLand</span></a></p>