Episode Transcript
This day in Quistory, July seventeenth, nineteen twenty one. Tony
tom Boys Stone, the first female to play in Negro
League baseball, is born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Stone had
a passion for the game early on. By age fifteen,
she was playing for the Twin City Colored Giants, a
semi professional men's team. In nineteen fifty three, Stone was
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signed by the Negro League's Indianapolis Clowns to play second base,
a position that had been vacated by Hank Aaron the
previous year. She maintained a two forty three batting average
throughout fifty games and even earned a hitoff legendary pitcher
Satchel Paige. Stone's professional career was short lived, as she
retired the following season due to a lack of playing time.
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Tony Stone was inducted into the Women's Sports Hall of
Fame in nineteen ninety three.
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