Curveball Read Online Free PDF Page B

Prentice Hall, 1968), 21–22.
     
    41 . [Norfolk, Virginia]
Journal and Guide
, July 3, 1954.
     
    42 .
Kansas City Call
, May 21, 1954.
     
    43 . Connie Morgan interview with Donna DeVore, approximately 1993. Archives of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum of Philadelphia.
     
    44 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester, January 3, 1991. Lester private archive.
     
    45 .
New York Times
, July 12, 1954;
New York Amsterdam News
, July 17, 1954.
     
    46 .
Kansas City Call
, July 23, 1954.
     
    47 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester; Doug Grow’s notes on Toni Stone interview and 1990 visit shared with author December 3, 2007. Grow private archive.
     
    48 . Hayes.
     
    49 . Letter from Toni Stone to Aurelious Alberga, August 11, 1954. Bartlow-Reed private archive.
     
    50 . [Jefferson City, Missouri]
Post-Tribune
, August 5, 1954;
Kansas City Call
, September 18, 1954;
Kansas City Call
, August 7, 1954.
     
    51 . Motley, 113.
     
    52 . O’Neil, 154.
     
    53 . Motley, 111.
     
    54 . Ibid., 2–4.
     
    55 . Larry Lester e-mails to author, August 31, 2009, and November 9. 2009; Ray Doswell e-mail to author, November 15, 2009.
     
    56 . Doc Young, “Toss ’Em Out: Should Girls Play Ball; No, Says Doc,”
Chicago Defender
, August 28, 1954.
     
    57 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester, January 3, 1991. Lester private archive.
     
    58 . [Norfolk, Virginia]
Journal and Guide
, October 30, 1954.
     
    59 . Toni Stone interview with Larry Lester; Maria Barlow-Reed interview with the author, March 10, 2008; Pollock, 276.
     

Chapter 10: Happiest Day of My Life
     
    1 .
Brooklyn Eagle
, August 17, 1949, quoted in Leslie A. Heaphy,
The Negro Leagues, 1869–1960
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2002), 225.
     
    2 . Brent Kelley,
Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2000), 299.
     
    3 . Alan J. Pollock, ed. by James A. Riley,
Barnstorming to Heaven: Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 174.
     
    4 . Jackie Robinson,
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography
(New York: Ecco/Harper Collins, 1998), 118–119.
     
    5 . Diane DuBay, “If You Think No Woman Has Ever Said It Before, You Haven’t Checked History,”
Minnesota Women’s Press
, February 3–16, 1988, 5.
     
    6 . Ron Thomas, “Baseball’s ‘Intruder’ Loved Game,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, August 23, 1991.
     
    7 . Ernest C. Withers, essay by Daniel Wolfe, ed. by Anthony Decaneas,
Negro League Baseball
(New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005), 11.
     
    8 . Carolyn Kleiner Butler, “The Old Ballgames,”
Smithsonian
, April 2005; Henry Louis Gates Jr. e-mail to author, October 17, 2007; Martin Luther King Jr.,
Why We Can’t Wait
(New York: Signet, 1964), 25.
     
    9 . Donnie Williams and Wayne Greenhaw,
The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
(Chicago: Lawrence Hill/Chicago Review Press, 2005), 48.
     
    10 . Toni Stone interview with Bill Kruissink, March 27, 1996. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc., Cooperstown, NY.
     
    11 . Doug Grow, “Baseball Pioneer Never Listened to Naysayers,” Minneapolis–Saint Paul
StarTribune
, January 31, 1997; Maria Bartlow-Reed interview with the author, March 10, 2008. While Toni admitted a vague memory of the event and some details changed with the telling, Stone family members corroborate that the story was typical of her lifelong interaction with and reliance on the church.
     
    12 . Toni Stone interview with Jean Hasting Ardell, April 1992. Ardell interview notes shared with author June 22, 2009.
     
    13 . Toni Stone interview with Jean Hasting Ardell; Maria Bartlow-Reed interview with the author.
     
    14 . Motley, 90.
     
    15 . Bruce Markusen,
Ted Williams: A Biography
(Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2004), 98.
     
    16 . James F. Vail,
The Road to Cooperstown: A Critical History of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Selection