A Little League Of Her Own: The First Girl In Little League Baseball
At 13, Kay Johnston pretended to be a boy and played first base for her Little League team in upstate N.Y. That was in the 1950s. Now 81, Kay Johnston Massar says "I just wanted to play the game."
There's no crying in baseball. But for Kay Johnston, there's crying when you can't play.
In the spring of 1950, in upstate New York, 13-year-old Kay Johnston wanted nothing more than to play Little League baseball. But in those days, that was out of the question. Girls weren't encouraged to swing bats and throw balls.
Kay Johnston Massar, 81, sat down with her husband Cy Massar, 84, at StoryCorps to tell
