Aside: Assuming there isn’t some loophole that MLB applies, it rights a long overdue wrong to both the Negro Leagues and Toni Stone (and the women that followed her). I…

I buried the lead. Toni Stone was the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues. Today’s announcement that @MLB has ruled that the Negro Leagues were major leagues should…

@jdflynn What was even the context? A diocese that’s a first step for a new bishop before going somewhere else, a la starter home?

@cjbrown22 @MLB @NLBMuseumKC I don’t know if she has any type of permanent display. She was honored back in the 90s ( mlb.com/history/negro-… ). I’ve never been to Cooperstown, but…

@cjbrown22 @MLB @NLBMuseumKC But afaik, they weren’t on a major league team. Just played against them on a barnstorming team or maybe on a minor league team, though not sure…

@cjbrown22 @MLB @NLBMuseumKC I didn’t know about Charley Pride. With Toni Stone, she was, IIRC, the first woman to play in a Negro League, which may mean she’s retroactively the…