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July 18, 2023 55 secs
Today we celebrate Toni "Tomboy" Stone, the first woman to play professional baseball, as part of the Negro Leagues
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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.

(00:45):
Tony Stone was inducted into the Women's Sports Hall of
Fame in nineteen ninety three.
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