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Includes new biographical information and some never-before-seen photos. - bartenders
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Pittsburgh’s first purpose-built Negro League ballpark (before Greenlee Field), completely forgotten until recently. - dave brown and the case of the glossy green shirt
Was the pitcher Dave Brown, fugitive from a murder charge, apprehended in North Carolina in 1938? - foster and méndez, 1924 world series
In Game 10 of the 1924 World Series, José Méndez, sick with a viral infection, gutted out a 3-hit shutout to clinch the series for KC. Did Rube Foster really call every pitch for him? - how cool papa got his name
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Photos of Royal Giants great Irvin Woodberry Brooks. - juan padrón: photos
Photos of the famous southpaw, during his playing career and after. - lost island giants
A team with a mysterious-sounding name leads to an unexpected haul of research riches. - negro leaguers in mexico, 1946-48: informally banned by the majors?
Another, hitherto unnoticed barrier to Negro Leaguers joining the majors. - rescued from the dustbin of history
A cautionary tale about microfilm: two Cuban Stars box scores preserved only in bound volumes of the Cincinnati Enquirer. - the greatly exaggerated death of rafael figarola
José Méndez did NOT accidentally kill his teammate with a pitch. - the search for pete hill
How the Hall of Fame outfielder was finally identified and his family found. - the tokohama conspiracy
The only first-person account of John McGraw's attempt to pass off Charlie Grant as an Indian. - ty cobb in cuba, 1910
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- black sox scandal
- black world series
- blainey hall
- box scores
- bullet rogan
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- chicago american giants
- claudio manela
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- cool papa bell
- cuba
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- cuban teams & players in the united states
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- cyclone joe williams
- dave brown
- dobie moore
- ed wilson
- eugene bremer
- felix wallace
- fiction
- field of dreams
- films
- forgotten negro leaguers
- frank grant
- from the army to the negro leagues
- george carr
- george h. wilson
- heavy johnson
- historiography
- home run johnson
- irvin brooks
- jackie robinson
- japan
- jesse barbour
- john donaldson
- john mcgraw
- josh gibson
- josé méndez
- juan padrón
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- major league equivalencies
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- mexico
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- pop watkins
- pud flournoy
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- This Game of Games: 19C St Louis Baseball
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- black world series
- blainey hall
- box scores
- bullet rogan
- carlos morán
- central park, pittsburgh
- charlie grant
- chicago american giants
- claudio manela
- colombia
- cool papa bell
- cuba
- cuban league statistics
- cuban stars (east)
- cuban stars (west)
- cuban teams & players in the united states
- cuban X giants
- cyclone joe williams
- dave brown
- dobie moore
- ed wilson
- eugene bremer
- felix wallace
- fiction
- field of dreams
- films
- forgotten negro leaguers
- frank grant
- from the army to the negro leagues
- george carr
- george h. wilson
- heavy johnson
- historiography
- home run johnson
- irvin brooks
- jackie robinson
- japan
- jesse barbour
- john donaldson
- john mcgraw
- josh gibson
- josé méndez
- juan padrón
- kansas city monarchs
- LATEST STATISTICS
- lawson brothers
- long branch cubans
- louis castro
- luis padrón
- major league equivalencies
- maps
- mexico
- minor leagues
- music
- mysteries
- myths & legends
- necrology
- negro league ballparks
- negro league standings
- negro league statistics
- negro league teams & players in cuba
- negro leaguers & war
- negro leaguers vs. white major leaguers
- negro leagues
- nicknames
- nisei baseball
- oscar charleston
- pete hill
- photographs
- pittsburgh keystones
- pop watkins
- pud flournoy
- pythias russ
- rafael almeida
- ramón herrera
- research help
- rube foster
- satchel paige
- semipro
- shoeless joe jackson
- spottswood poles
- st. louis stars
- stoney mcglynn
- texas colored league
- text sims & tabletop games
- ty cobb
- U.S. teams & players in cuba
- venezuela
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