“I tell people all the time you can’t make this stuff up, it’s too good.”
The great Satchel Paige donned a whig and fake red beard as he played with the all-white House of David team during the 1934 Denver Post Tournament. Needless to say, Satchel put on a show as his team won the tournament and the $7,500 prize money.
Fighting through the mire of segregation, some of the game’s greatest players make-up the backdrop.
Jackie Robinson was the perfect man to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.
J.L. Wilkinson’s gamble paid off in a major way amongst the working class.
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