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Diamond_Dog

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Wed Feb 9, 2022, 10:50 AM Feb 2022

Today's Google doodle - Toni Stone. First woman to play regularly American pro baseball

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 OP
KNR. Would you consider cross-posting this in Women's Rights And Issues? niyad Feb 2022 #1
You got it, niyad! Diamond_Dog Feb 2022 #3
Neat! Thanks for the heads-up. K&R crickets Feb 2022 #2
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