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Old 11-06-2007, 09:15 AM
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Default Early integrated baseball images

Posted By: Jim VB

Dennis,

Don't have a picture, but on another thread (Interesting Magazine) I posted a clipping of a game between the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Brooklyn Bushwicks.

The Bushwicks were a "mixed ethnicity" semi-pro team that, occasionally, hired major league players. The clipping I posted describes them hiring the Dean brothers for the following weekend to pitch against Paige.

The owner of the Bushwicks, Max Rosner, also pioneered the use of lights for night baseball in, I believe, 1930. This was about 5 years before the Major League got interested in lights.

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