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Women’s Press
vol. 5, no. 25, March 14–27, 1990, 11.
     
    17 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester, January 3, 1991. Lester private archive.
     
    18 . Ron Thomas, “She Made It a League of Her Own,”
Emerge
, May 1986, 60.
     
    19 . Ibid.
     
    20 . Mark Moore, “Negro League’s First Female Player Recalls Life, Career in Pro Baseball,” n.p., n.d. Lester private archive.
     
    21 . www.chicagodefender.com/article-1369-about-us.html .
     
    22 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester, January 3, 1991. Lester private archive.
     
    23 . Toni Stone interview with Kyle McNary, September 1993. McNary private archive; Sandy Keenan, “Stone Had a Ball,”
Newsday
, October 5, 1993.
     
    24 . Allen McMillan, “Four Clubs Battle for Top Baseball Honors in New York,”
Chicago Defender
, September 28, 1935.
     
    25 . Hayes; Diane DuBay, “I Just Wanted to Play Ball,”
Minnesota Women’s Press
, February 3–16, 1988, 5.
     
    26 . Harry T. Brundidge, “Gabby Street, a Fighter All His Life, Spurns Title of Miracle Man, but Career Shows He Deserves It,”
Sporting News,
October 2, 1930.
     
    27 . “Watermelon seed” comment was Ty Cobb’s. Both the watermelon reference and Cobb’s quotation are from www.cmgww.com/baseball/johnson .
     
    28 . Alan Gould, “Gabby Street: Ace of the Cards,” n.p., n.d. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY. Gabby Street file.
     
    29 . Porter Wittich, n.p., n.d. National Baseball Hall of Fame, Inc., Cooperstown, NY. Gabby Street file.
     
    30 . Hayes.
     
    31 . Gabby Street, “It’s Still Baseball,”
American Legion Monthly
no. 70, April 1932, n.p.
     
    32 . Ibid.
     
    33 .
Minneapolis Spokesman
. June 5, 1936.
     
    34 . Toni Stone interview with Jean Hastings Ardell, April 1992. Ardell’s interview notes shared with author June 22, 2009.
     
    35 .
Minnesota Spokesman
, June 5, 1936.
     
    36 . James M. Gould, “The Old Sarge Returns,” n.p., February 1938. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY. Gabby Street file.
     
    37 . Gai Ingham Berlage,
The Forgotten Women in Baseball History
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994), 169; Hayes; Bill Kruissink, “First Woman in Pro Baseball Remembers,”
Alameda Journal
, April 2, 1996.
     
    38 . Street, “It’s Still Baseball.”
     
    39 . “Old Sarge Inspects Saints’ Muster Roll,”
St. Paul Pioneer Press
, February 25, 1937.
     
    40 . George Minot, “Ball Stirs Old Memories of Street’s Famed Catch,”
Washington Post
, January 25, 1964.
     
    41 . J. G. Taylor Spink, “Looping the Loop,”
Sporting News
, August 20, 1947; L. H. Addington, “Gabby Street Is Called ‘Ball Player’s Man,’”
Sporting News
, November 7, 1929; Bob Considine, “Big Time for Old Times’ Gabby Street Tells of Monument Catch,”
New York Daily Mirror
, October 12, 1944; Earle Marchres, “Famous Catch,”
Ford Times
, March 1975.
     
    42 . Toni Stone interview with Kyle McNary, September 1993. McNary private archive.
     
    43 . Joe Williams, “Please, Kiddies, Mr. Street Could Catch, Too,” n.p., n.d. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY. Gabby Street file; J. G. Taylor Spink, “Looping the Loop”
Sporting News
, August 20, 1947.
     
    44 . Fred Lieb,
Baseball as I Have Known It
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977), 54.
     
    45 . Ibid.
     
    46 . Alan Gould, “Gabby Street: Ace of the Cards,” n.d., n.p. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY. Gabby Street file; Harry T. Brundridge, “Gabby Street, a Fighter All of His Life, Spurns Title of Miracle Man, but Career Shows He Deserves It,”
Sporting News
, October 2, 1930.
     
    47 . Tim Brady, “Almost Perfect Equality,” September 20, 2002. University of Minnesota Alumni Association. www.alumni.umn.edu/Almost_Perfect_Equality.html .
     
    48 . Nancy Vaillancourt interview with the author, June 16, 2008.
     
    49 . Jennifer Delton,
Making Minnesota Liberal
:
Civil Rights and the Transformation of the