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Willard Brown – Society for American Baseball Research
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Games, RetroSimba
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BiblioVault - Books about African American baseball players
Wimbish's recollections of the sports figures he met as a youngster and later in a 37-year career as a newspaperman make for riveting reading. His father was Dr. Ralph M. Wimbish, a prominent figure in the NAACP's efforts to rid the South of racial discrimination in the late '50s and early '60s.
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Heroes: Stories of Sports, Courage and Class [Book]
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Entertainment - Ebooks Library, Page 190
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St. Louisan Elston Howard was a man of firsts for the Yankees and
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The St. Louis Baseball Reader: Saint book by Richard Peterson
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Elston: The Story of the First African-American Yankee by Arlene