Logo of the Indianapolis Clowns, a baseball team that played in the Negro American League in the 1930s and ’40s. Most of the old Negro League teams disbanded after the integration of major league baseball, but the Clowns continued to operate as a barnstorming, comic-leaning operation, a baseball version of the Harlem Globetrotters, well into the 1960s. Their early roster even included showman Goose Tatum, a famous future Globetrotter. The Clowns employed the first female player, second baseman Toni Stone, and their roster also included future major leaguers Paul Casanova, Choo Choo Coleman and John Wyatt. However, their most famous player ever was outfielder Henry Aaron, who played for them in 1952 before his contract was sold to the major league Boston Braves’ organization.