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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.
@YusufToropov @stlcolorbaseball @RuthODay @tabletopmania @ted_duffield @cwgrody @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @blackvoices This was the first time a Black player was on a team in Japan with another Black player. Jimmy Bonner broke the color barrier in Japan in 1936.
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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!
@YusufToropov@toot.community @stlcolorbaseball@mastodon.social @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @cwgrody@mastodon.sdf.org @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community No worries at all. Credit to Professor Dexter Thomas for putting it all together from the shreds and fragments found by baseball historians.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/07/14/412880758/the-secret-history-of-black-baseball-players-in-japan
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Off day for #1947League.
In the meantime…
https://youtube.com/shorts/BVMHX6MIwjE?si=xE3LxXYiEV1DoFKQ
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Yakyu is our very own “lights out” closer!
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YEP!
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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::