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Thank you for that, Yakyu. I almost felt like leaving, mid-game, but wanted to stay to see what happened with the t-shirt.
Normally I wouldn’t have an interest in a team from TN, but Dave Stewart has a role with the ownership group. He’s a solid guy, probably with the most experience of anyone across all levels of a baseball organization.
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Bob Kendrick of #NegroLeagues Baseball Museum on Cool Papa Bell.
Stop and think for a moment about what it means to circle the bases in 12 seconds.
Or for Jesse Owens to refuse to race someone because he’s too fast.
Or to score from first on a bunt.
All that stuff happened. Here on Earth.
https://youtu.be/FDuDOLcK2XU?si=1CqgWCDhzDbyYWmk
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Bell in 1926
https://socprofb.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/colorizing-early-st-louis-baseball-cool-papa-bell/
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Yep! Bottom row, center.
Can you ID the other guys?
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TIGERS TAKE 3 OF 4 AT THE COYLE
The kind of line score that drives managers nuts. Detroit wins, despite Senators outhitting Tigers 12-6. Three unearned runs in 6th make the difference. Trout gets the W, Newberry the SV.
DET (43-40) 000213000 6 6 0
WAS(21-64)100020200 5 12 3
#1947League #baseball
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Today’s #1947League game brought to you by Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers.
Calloway: sui generis.
As Josh Gibson was to Babe Ruth, the Nicholas Brothers were to Gene Kelly/Fred Astaire. AL/NL wasn’t the only place where excellence didn’t mean you made the big time.
https://youtu.be/IoMbeDhG9fU?si=YZGLCHlOLS2CLxYD
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Together with John Britton, today’s #1947League hero Jimmy Newberry did something in 1952 that no Black player had done before. What was it?
(Major hint in photo below.)
#baseball
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Played for a team in Japan.
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CORRECT! @tabletopmania swoops in for the win!
What would you like to hear, sir!
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Orange Crush- REM
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I stand corrected, @YakyuNightOwl !
Had a feeling I should have gone to the authoritative source – you – rather than trusting something online…
Live and learn!
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Just as Albert Einstein says, “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.”
::scary that autofill filled in the last few words::
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Yakyu is our very own “lights out” closer!
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https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/07/14/412880758/the-secret-history-of-black-baseball-players-in-japan