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Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League
by Martha Ackmann
by Martha Ackmann
Tho born as Marcenia Stone, by the time she was fourteen, this woman was known as Tomboy Stone. Why? She loved to run and play baseball. In the 1930s, this was unusual behavior for a girl. Her parents even frowned upon Tomboy's extracuricular activities. Tomboy was on the verge of running away from home when the local priest realized her potential and convinced her parents to allow her to play on the church baseball team. This was only the beginning...
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| 07/13/2010 | page 23 |
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8.0% | "Long way to go yet, but I'm impressed with how the author has made it kinda story like, not "on this day of blah blah, so and so went blah blah" like most biographies." |
| 07/14/2010 | page 121 |
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42.0% | "Too much information at times about people I don't care about, but I have learned some interesting stuff." |
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Jul 01, 2010 11:34am
Sounds really interesting. I never knew there was a woman who played in the men's Negro League. Fighting two battles at once! Thanks for recommending it, Tara.
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I'm excited about it and I hardly ever do biographies. That goes to show how much this woman interests me. LOL. I seen the ad on shelf awareness and I'm so glad I did.
My dad wants my copy when I'm done with it. He loves reading about baseball and he loves biographies. I told him about this. I bought him a Roberto Clemente biography for Father's Day last year. As a matter of fact, the author of this book was in his city last weekend at the Negro Museum. He is sorry he was unable to go. At least he will get to read the book tho. :)
