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The original Indianapolis Clowns included baseball greats like Hank Aaron, Satchel Paige and the first professional female player Toni Stone. This photo, Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society, shows the team in 1943.
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'More than who wins and loses.' The Indianapolis Clowns, opportunity and racial discrimination
Barb Anguiano
The Negro Leagues team has a complicated history. How that history is preserved and presented to a new generation now complicates the next chapter for the Indianapolis Clowns.
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