Toni Palermo

Toni Ann Palermo (February 15, 1933 – April 5, 2024) was an American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She began playing as a child with neighborhood teams, eventually being recruited into the higher leagues. When she was twenty, she joined the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee. She taught in Wisconsin grade and high schools before eventually attaining a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.