スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 3月28日 20時41分

It’s day three of the @NMAAHC Instagram takeover! #DYK a woman played in the early baseball leagues?
Marcia “Toni” Stone made history in 1953 when she signed with the Indiana Clowns of the Negro Leagues. Stone became the first woman to ever play professionally in a men’s league (out of three women total).
At age 15, she played with the Twin City Colored Giants, a traveling men’s baseball club. After moving to San Francisco in the 1940s, Stone changed her first name to Toni and dropped 10 years off her claimed age to increase her chances of playing with a men’s baseball team.
It wasn’t long before she was playing again, and in 1949 she joined the San Francisco Lions of the West Coast Negro Baseball League. Despite being a talented and high-profile athlete, Stone faced gender discrimination from other players and fans, who were upset by a woman competing in a “men’s” game.
But Stone’s place in baseball history is undeniable. In 1993, she was inducted into the Women’s Sports Hall of Fame. #HiddenHerstory #WomensHistoryMonth
?: Marcia "Toni" Stone and unidentified teammate, Martin's Stadium, Memphis, TN, © Ernest C. Withers Trust, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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