Toni Stone Husband, Baseball Card, Family, Quotes

Toni Stone was the first of three women to play professional baseball full-time for the Indianapolis Clowns. He was born on July 17, 1921.

Stone talked her way onto the roster of the San Francisco Sea Lions by Spring of 1949. The 1946 failure of short-lived West Coast Negro Baseball Association, of which the Sea Lions had been a member, inspired owners Hal King and Harold Morris to take a chance on Stone’s argument that she would draw crowds.

In 2020 and 2021, the Society for American Baseball Research(SABR) nominated Stone for the Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award.

Toni Stone Husband

Toni Stone met Captain Aurelious Pescia Alberga, a native of Oakland and WWI veteran. They married in 1950. While he continued to live in the San Francisco Bay Area as Stone pursued her career on baseball teams around the country, they remained married until she died at the age of 103 in the 1980s.

Baseball Card

Toni Stone Family

Born in West Virginia to Boykin and Willa Maynard Stone, Toni Stone had two sisters and a brother. Her father was a barber, a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, who also served in the United States Army during World War I.

Toni Stone Quotes

• People weren’t ready for me
• We ask only for Justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equally before the law.