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Four Girls of Summer is a brief look at Toni Stone, Connie Morgan, Peanut Johnson, and Effa Manley - three players and one owner/manager who broke the gender ceiling in Negro League Baseball.

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Four Girls of Summer

There's a scene in the movie "A League of Their Own" where the ball gets away and lands by a young black woman watching the game. She picks up the baseball and throws it smack into the mitt of a player.

Today, this woman would be on the team rather than the sidelines. But this was the 1940s and blacks were not allowed to play on white baseball teams.

So what's a black female baseball player to do in the pre-integration years if she wants to get into the game? If that woman is Toni Stone, she plays with the guys in the Negro Leagues. Once Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, Negro League superstars increasingly signed with the Major Leagues. Negro League owners had to come up with creative ways to keep fans in the seats; signing a woman to play was one way to sell tickets.

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Written by: B.A. Rice
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