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ID: 335453
Title: Sports Byline: Gilbert Black
Author: Ron Barr
Narrator: Gilbert Black, Ron Barr
Format: Unabridged
Length: 00:22:01
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-18
Publisher: Happyland
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies
Summary:
One of the last living Negro American League players, Gilbert Black of the Indianapolis Clowns talks about growing up in NYC and sneaking into the Polo Grounds to watch baseball games as a child.
Black recalls the segregation and discrimination he and other black baseball players faced in the major leagues, including being made to sleep outside on a porch at training camp with the Atlanta Braves.
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