The Indianapolis Clowns played from 1943 to 1954. The team was founded in the 1930s in Miami as the Ethiopian Clowns and were at first entertainers. They became an official baseball team in 1943, when ...

You cannot talk about the Indianapolis Clowns without mentioning Hank Aaron ... Jared "Bloomy" Bloom is a journalist covering Major League Baseball at Sportskeeda and a former college baseball ...

the first woman to play regularly on a men's professional baseball team, is taking center stage in the Circle City. Stone broke barriers in 1953 by joining the Indianapolis Clowns, a team in the ...

Charleston managed as late as 1954, when he led the Indianapolis Clowns to a league championship. He died on Oct. 5, 1954, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. “His story is so ...

"Toni Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball, period. She played in the Negro Leagues for the Indianapolis Clowns and the Kansas City Monarchs," cites the documentary on https ...

One of baseball’s greatest myths is that of ... When she signed a contract in 1953 with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League, Stone became the first woman to play in a men ...

Stone joined the Indianapolis Clowns as a second baseman in 1953, making her the first woman to play as a regular on an American major-level professional baseball team. Russell knew telling her ...

Indianapolis Black Theatre Co. selected Ben Rose as founding artistic director in October 2023. (Photo courtesy of Indianapolis Black Theatre Co.) “Toni Stone,” a play based on a woman who ...

Stone, the first of three Black women to play professional baseball full time for the Indianapolis Clowns in the 1950s, is talking about the Negro leagues, where playing serious ball coexisted ...