Three women - Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie Johnson - made history in the Negro Leagues.
Three Black women - Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie Johnson - played baseball in the men's Negro Leagues . There's an exhibit dedicated to them at the Birmingham Negro Southern League Museum.between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants in Birmingham, local historians say it’s essential to remember Black women who also played baseball at Rickwood.
“Anytime there’s a group of voices are missing, you’ve got an underdeveloped story about that history,” Heaphy said.Diehard baseball fans may recognize the names of these talented players who kept Black baseball going as the major leagues inched toward integration. Both the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball memorialized them.Born Marcenia Lyle, Toni Stone, one of the first women to play for a men’s baseball team, was a talented athlete even as a child growing up in Minnesota.
Stone played for multiple men’s amateur and barnstorming teams but made a name for herself on the Indianapolis Clowns. Coach Syd Pollock recruited her in 1953 to replace legendary second baseman Hank Aaron when he left for the Milwaukee Braves.Pollock traded her to the Kansas City Monarchs, and she retired in 1954. At one point, Stone’s batting average was .364, one of the top five averages in the league.
“She went far to right to make a sensational stop, flipped to shortstop Bill Holder and started a lightning doubleplay,” the article read. Morgan played one season with a batting average of about .300. More recently, a remake of “A League of Their Own” was a television series for one season on Amazon Prime. One of the main characters is Max Chapman, who is turned away from the AAGPBL because she’s Black but eventually realizes her dream of becoming a baseball player by playing with men. Chapman’s story is a detailed,Heaphy said tracking down relatives of legends like Stone, Johnson and Morgan is difficult.
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