Part of the magic of the Negro Leagues is the storytelling. There is a rich oral tradition of passing along the stories and legends of those leagues, which inevitably grow and change in the re-telling until we’re convinced that Cool Papa Bell really was so fast that he could turn of the light and be in bed before the room got dark.
Unfortunately, part of…
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