by jbminor | Jun 18, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Toni Stone Female Negro League baseball player Toni Stone (July 17, 1921 – November 2, 1996),born as Marcenia Lyle Stone, was the first of three women to play professional baseball as a part of the Negro League.[1][2] Toni Stone attended Roosevelt High School in...
by jbminor | Jun 18, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Mamie “Peanut” Johnson (September 27, 1935 – December 19, 2017) was an American professional baseball player who was one of three women, and the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro Leagues. She was born in Ridgeway, South Carolina in 1935. She was...
by jbminor | Jun 16, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Ted Radcliffe American baseball player-manager Theodore Roosevelt “Double Duty” Radcliffe (July 7, 1902 – August 11, 2005 (aged 103)) was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues. He is one of only a handful of professional baseball players who...
by jbminor | Jun 16, 2018 | Negro Leagues
History The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 by a group of former Negro league baseball players, including Kansas City Monarchs outfielder, Alfred Surratt,[2] Buck O’Neil, and Horace Peterson.[3] It moved from a small, single-room office inside...
by jbminor | Jun 15, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Judy Johnson American baseball player William Julius “Judy” Johnson (October 26, 1899 – June 15, 1989) was an American professional third baseman and manager whose career in Negro league baseball spanned 17 seasons, from 1921 to 1937. Slight of build,...