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The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League

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De: Martha Ackmann
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Documenting multiple challenges at every turn - as a target for racism from society at large and sexism both inside and outside of the Negro League - this is the unique story of the first woman to play professional baseball on a men's team, breaking barriers in sports while believing, "There's got to be a first in everything. Maybe it will be me." Highlighting aggressive and resourceful behaviors, the text explains that as players began to leave the Negro League for major league teams, Toni Stone seized her only opportunity to play professional ball and replaced Henry Aaron on the Indianapolis Clowns, the Negro League's top team. Chronicling her career, this biography follows her experiences playing first with the Indianapolis Clowns, and later with the Kansas City Monarchs. It also details her encounters with the era's top athletes - Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Buck O'Neil, and Satchel Paige to name a few. As the exploration reveals her remarkable talent, perseverance, and accomplishments, it shows how she posed as a double threat - Black and female - to the dominance of White males in sports and society.

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I had never imagined that an African-American female had played professional baseball. Even when I visited Cooperstown earlier this Spring, there was not mention of Toni Stone in the Negro Leagues exhibit OR the Women’s League exhibit. It took my neighbor’s visit to Kansas City and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and him taking a picture of this book and saying, “heh, you might want to find and read this book”. What a history lesson and delight for me as an African-American woman to absolutely loves baseball & “bleeds BLUE” for the Los Angeles t. Thank you Toni, Connie, & Peanut for being the shoulders African-American women can stand on and for being pioneers in baseball & women’s sport.

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