This is Toni Stone. Marcenia Lyle “Toni” Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball regularly in a major men's professional baseball league. And while in the Negro American League, she replaced none other than Hank Aaron. She was a phenomenal athlete from her youth, and though she played football, basketball, golf, hockey and tennis, among other sports while growing up, baseball was the one that did it. At 16 years old, she joined the semi-pro Twin Cities Colored Giants club, which had been an all-male team. Stone began her professional career with the San Francisco Sea Lions of the West Coast Negro Baseball League in 1946. By 1949, she had moved east and began playing for the New Orleans Black Pelicans and the New Orleans Creoles of the Negro Southern League. Stone also reportedly got a hit off one the greatest pitchers in history, Satchel Paige. Sheesh! Stone retired from professional baseball following the 1954 season, one she spent with the Kansas City Monarchs after having her contract sold by Indianapolis following the ’53 campaign. In 1990, she was included in the “Women in Baseball” and “Negro League Baseball” exhibits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Three years later, she was inducted into the Women’s Sports Hall of Fame and the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame. In 1990, in her hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota declared March 6 “Toni Stone Day” in the city. Stone died on November 2, 1996 at the age of 75, but her legacy lives on today. An off-broadway play was produced about her life by award-winning playwright Lydia R. Diamond, entitled “Toni Stone” in 2019.