“Toni Stone” is the story of the first woman to play in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Once rejected by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League due to race, she instead joined an all-male baseball team to play second base. BlackVoicesWTTW
America’s favorite pastime is taking center stage in a new production at the Goodman Theatre.
Bonner said of the play: “What you’ll learn are some of the obstacles she faced — part of that her mother not being supportive. She wanted to do traditional mother things. She was proficient in a lot of things and didn’t want to limit herself. It follows her journey in an all-male sport, some of the things she had to do to fit in and some of the things she had to comprise herself to be in this sport.
“The story I’m telling is about Toni Stone,” Diamond said. “Some things she encountered were horrible things. It made not what White people have done to us the story — it was important to me that that not be the story.”
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