St. Paul native Toni Stone, the first woman to play on a men's professional baseball team died on November 2nd, 1996 at a nursing home near Oakland, California. She was 75 years old. In 1990, Stone came back to St. Paul to talk to a group of students during Women's History Month. MPR’s Bill Wareham was there and presents audio from a story that was originally broadcast in 1990.

Stone, whose full name was Marcenia Lyle Stone Alberga, made history in 1953 when she played for the Indianapolis Clowns, one of the teams in the Negro National League. She also played a year for Kansas City before retiring at the age of 34.