Free Curveball by Martha Ackmann

80, 81, 86
     
San Francisco Seals, 23, 62–63, 70, 83
     
San Francisco Seals Stadium, 62, 64
     
San Francisco Spokesman,
56
     
Saperstein, Abe, 64–65
     
Scroggins, John, 67, 85
     
Seattle Steel Heads, 64–65
     
segregation.
see also
integration; Jim Crow laws; racism
     
in AAGPBL, 109
     
barbershops and, 9–10
     
Brown v. Board of Education
and, 180–82
     
children and, 12–13
     
fans and, 77–78
     
Hall on, 83
     
history of, in baseball, 112
     
Lacy and, 77
     
in New Orleans, 71–73
     
Pacific Coast League and, 63
     
Pelican Stadium and, 77–78
     
press commentary on, 83
     
Robinson and, 161–62
     
travel and, 152–55
     
shipyards, women working in, 54–55
     
Smith, Hilton, 41, 194n
     
Smith, Johnnie Mae, 7, 37
     
Smith, Percy, 134, 140
     
Smith, Wendell, 81, 93–94, 136–38, 191
     
spring training, 123–24, 125, 126
     
St. Cyprian’s recreational league, 157–58
     
St. Francis de Sales church, 197–98
     
St. Ignatius Catholic baseball team, 122
     
St. Louis Browns, 33, 122n
     
St. Louis Cardinals, 5, 25, 30, 61
     
St. Louis Giants, 113
     
St. Louis Stars, 95
     
St. Peter Claver, 1–3, 15
     
statistics
     
1953 season and, 163
     
1954 season and, 190
     
batting averages, 140
     
keeping of, 82–83
     
press coverage and, 136–37
     
Sterling Club, 15
     
Stockard, Russell, 82–83
     
Stone, Bernous “Bunny,” 7, 49–50, 51–52, 53
     
Stone, Blanche, 7, 49, 192, 196
     
Stone, Boykin
     
background of, 6–7
     
barbershop of, 9–10, 11
     
Colored Giants and, 43
     
concerns of, 1–5, 15, 18, 49
     
lessons from, 97
     
newspaper coverage and, 98
     
separation from wife and, 196
     
Stone’s education and, 36–37
     
at Tuskegee Institute, 19
     
Stone, Quinten, 7, 46, 49
     
Stone, Toni “Tomboy”
     
age of, 61, 98–99, 126
     
break from baseball and, 105, 107–8
     
celebrity of, 125
     
childhood of, 1–7, 12–15
     
education of, 19, 35–37, 46
     
equipment and, 17, 33
     
fans and, 130
     
harassment of, 139–40
     
Indianapolis Clowns and, 118–19
     
interview with, ix–xiii
     
learning baseball and, 19–21, 43–44, 96, 151
     
marriage of, 103
     
name change and, 59
     
nickname of, 14–15
     
offseason and, 97
     
Pollock and, 141–42
     
press coverage of, 98, 135, 136–38, 142
     
recognition of, 36–37, 205–8, 209–10
     
San Francisco arrival and, 51–55
     
shipyard work and, 54–55
     
social life of, 103–5
     
Street and, 22, 25–28, 30, 32–33
     
Stone, Willa
     
absence at games, 43
     
barbershop of, 9–10, 11
     
barnstorming and, 38–39
     
in California, 192, 196
     
concerns of, 1–5, 15, 18
     
ice skating and, 14
     
lessons from, 97
     
marriage of, 7
     
newspaper coverage and, 98
     
Stone’s education and, 36–38
     
Street, Charles Evard “Gabby”
     
background of, 23–25
     
death of, 107
     
Ku Klux Klan and, 30–32
     
with Saint Paul Saints, 5
     
Stone and, 22, 25–28, 30, 32–33, 53, 98
     
Washington Monument catch and, 28–30
     
swing bunt, 44–45
     
Taylor, Olan “Jelly,” 94, 95
     
teammate relations, 139–40, 155–56, 174–75, 187
     
Till, Emmett, 195–96
     
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans), 82
     
Title IX legislation, 206
     
travel
     
accidents and, 131–32, 144–45
     
accommodations and, 154–57
     
dangers of, 131–33
     
difficulties of, 45, 128
     
Jim Crow laws and, 152–54
     
passing the time during, 85
     
to spring training, 123–24
     
Turner, Miki, 126n, 207
     
Tuskegee Institute, 7, 19
     
Twin City Colored Giants, 38–39, 40–46
     
uniforms
     
cleanliness of, 76
     
Indianapolis Clowns and, 127
     
lack of, 60
     
Pollock and, 172
     
prostitutes and, 156–57
     
skirts and, 123
     
Stone’s first, 39
     
United Defense League (UDL), 162
     
Warren, Earl, 64, 181
     
Washington, Booker T., 7, 19, 32, 106
     
Washington Monument, 29
     
Washington Senators, 24, 29
     
West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA), 64–65,