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MO’NE DAVIS WILL DONATE

HISTORIC JERSEY TO HOF

Mo'ne Davis shows her stuff while playing at Cooperstown All-Star Village earlier this summer.  (All-Star Village photo)
Mo’ne Davis shows her stuff while playing at Cooperstown All-Star Village earlier this summer. (All-Star Village photo)

COOPERSTOWN – Mo’ne Davis, the first female pitcher to win a game at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., will be at the Hall of Fame Thursday to donate the jersey she wore during the historic victory.

Davis will visit the Hall along with teammates from both her Taney Little League World Series team and the Anderson Monarchs, her travel team since she was 7, to present the donation to Museum President Jeff Idelson. She was in Otsego County earlier this summer, where she played with the Monarchs at Cooperstown All-Star Village in West Oneonta.

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, a former Negro Leagues pitcher and one of only three women to play in the Negro Leagues, will also attend Thursday’s donation event at the Museum.

Following the presentation, Davis and her teammates will face the Catskill Mountain Cougars 12U team from Stamford, N.Y., in an exhibition game at Doubleday Field in the Village of Cooperstown. The game, which is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a presentation and special proclamation from Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, will begin at 2 p.m.

Davis received national attention when she pitched Taney Little League, which is based in Philadelphia, Pa., into the 2014 Little League Baseball World Series. She became the fourth American female player to appear in the Little League Baseball World Series and the first to win a game on the mound, shutting out a team from Nashville, 4-0, over six full innings while featuring a fastball that reached 70 miles per hour.

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