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 Minneapolis, Minnesota. A baseball player from her early childhood, she went on to play for the San Francisco Sea Lions in the West Coast Negro Baseball League in 1945. In 1953, she was traded to the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro League and in 1954 she signed to the Kansas City Monarchs.

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