In 1938, the Owls Club, a group of talented Black women in Seattle, Washington, won the first-ever Black women’s professional softball championship.
The next year, behind left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown’s dominant performance — where she struck out 12 Manette batters — the team, then renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again.
But by 1940, the team seemed to have disbanded.
Champions. Trailblazers. Forgotten.
What happened to the women who made national headlines and then disappeared with time? How is it that it’s taken nearly 90 years for their story to resurface?
That question led CNN Sports to Stephanie…