Posted on 12/01/2002 7:14:27 PM PST by foreverfree
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:01:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Howard Leroy "Toots" Ferrell was a living, breathing, laughing part of Negro League Baseball history, Delaware history and American history. And now he's gone.
Delaware's last Negro Leaguer died at his home in Wilmington's Compton Apartments on Oct. 11. Ferrell, who was 73, took with him stories, told and untold, of the joys and tribulations of his three seasons in the Negro Leagues.
(Excerpt) Read more at delawareonline.com ...
It sometimes makes my eyes water to think that the likes of Judy Johnson never got the chance to be in the REAL major leagues, because they were the wrong color at the wrong time.
"Wasn't segregation a b*tch?" I asked my mom, and later my dad. They agreed that it was. And we're white.
foreverfree
Also, for anyone who's interested, the Negro League Baseball Museum in KCMO has a here
Mark
You're welcome, solzhenitsyn. :-)
foreverfree
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