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Who is baseball player Toni Stone and what was her cause of death?
REMEMBERING one of the first women to ever play professional baseball for a major men's baseball league.
Toni Stone was one of the first women to play baseball professionally for the Indianapolis Clowns.
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Who is Toni Stone?
Originally known as Marcenia Lyle Stone, Toni was the first woman to ever play baseball professionally on a regular basis in a major men's baseball league.
Toni was born on July 17, 1921, in Bluefield, West Virginia.
In 1931, the Stone family moved to Minnesota where Toni developed her love for baseball.
Stone grew up playing several different sports such as football, basketball, golf, hockey, and tennis, but baseball was her calling.
At the age of 16, Toni had joined what was previously known as an all-male team, the Twin Cities Colored Giants club.
Toni kicked off her professional baseball career with the San Francisco Sea Lions in the West Coast Negro Baseball League.