Don't know her name? We're not surprised. Few seem to know that Stone was the first Black woman to play professional baseball.
“Stars of the Negro Leagues.” I can’t remember where I bought the boxed set of trading cards that feature Black athletes who were prevented from playing Major League Baseball. This, until April 1947 when Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers andWhile thrilled to own the highly collectible cards, I’m mindful that the deck doesn’t include Marcenia LyleFew seem to know that Stone was the first Black woman to play professional baseball.
Instead, my editors directed me to write articles about a white, San Francisco 49ers football player whose injuries they always deemed headline news. I was also dispatched to Candlestick Park to cover baseball games between the arch rival San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers. In a rarity for a 1980s Black woman reporter, I once interviewed, at home plate, then-Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda. In hindsight, I would have gladly traded the experience for a chat with Toni Stone.
Sidelined by societal and internalized homophobia, I effectively forfeited the opportunities that Title IX has now afforded millions of girls and women for half a century. On her website, tennis greatput it this way: “Since Title IX’s passage, female participation at the high school level has grown by 1057 percent and by 614 percent at the college level.”
Sidelined by societal and internalized homophobia, I effectively forfeited the opportunities that Title IX has now afforded millions of girls and women for half a century.While I never got the chance to meet Toni Stone, I was delighted by the Google Doodle that, earlier this year,
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