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The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League
By Martha Ackmann
SPORTS & RECREATION
288 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF, Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $16.99 (CA $22.99) (US $16.99)
ISBN 9781613736562
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Feb 2017)
Lawrence Hill Books
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Reviews
"Martha Ackmann's biography of Toni Stone is three stories in one—of barnstorming baseball, the insidious Jim Crow era of segregation, and gender bias by blacks and whites. They are stories worth reading." —Larry Tye, author, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
"Martha Ackmann has lovingly introduced us to someone in baseball whom almost none of us ever knew existed. We should thank her for that introduction to the indomitable Toni Stone and for guiding us to a forgotten place in the sport's history." —Frank Deford, columnist, Sports Illustrated, and author, Bliss, Remembered
Author Biography
Martha Ackmann is a journalist and the author of the award-winning The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight. Her sports commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on National Public Radio's Only a Game. She has held fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the Society for American Baseball Research. She teaches in the gender studies department at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.