White Baseball Player Joins Negro League, Crosses Racial Color Line
Thursday, 05.20.2010, 01:00pm (GMT)
Contact: Abigail Davidson, Publicist, WinePress Publishing, 360-802-9758, abigail@winepressgroup.comENUMCLAW, Wash., May 20 /Christian Newswire/ --"My parents taught me that there are no color issues in the eye of the Lord, so I didn't have a problem trying out [for the team]."It was 1972. Baseball nut Dick"Lefty"O'Neal, who had just enlisted in the Air Force, learned that his salary was so small that he and his bride qualified for food stamps."I heard that the Negro League w Source: WinePress Publishing
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