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Related: About this forumToday's Google doodle - Toni Stone. First woman to play regularly American pro baseball
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Toni Stone (July 17, 1921 November 2, 1996), born as Marcenia Lyle Stone in West Virginia,[1] was the first of three women to play professional baseball full-time for the Indianapolis Clowns, in the previously all-male Negro leagues.[2][3][4] This also made her the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team.[5][6] A baseball player from her early childhood, she went on to play for the San Francisco Sea Lions, The New Orleans Creoles, the Indianapolis Clowns, and the Kansas City Monarchs before retiring from baseball in 1954.[1][
Fascinating bio from Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Stone
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Today's Google doodle - Toni Stone. First woman to play regularly American pro baseball (Original Post)
Diamond_Dog
Feb 2022
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niyad
(121,983 posts)1. Thank you for this fascinating find.
Diamond_Dog
(35,762 posts)2. You are welcome, niyad!
Google did the finding! I just passed it on!
What an interesting story.
niyad
(121,983 posts)3. I am not a sports person, so I was not paying attention. You brought it to light.