Leona Kearns was a 6 foot tall left-handed pitcher and first baseman for the female Philadelphia Bobbies team in the 1920s. She was a teammate of Edith Houghton on that team. On January 22, 1926, she died after being swept overboard from the Empress of Asia, the ship that some of the Bobbies were taking home after their manager Eddie Ainsmith left them behind.