Anyone have a source for this?
Wikipedia links to a New Yorker article that is an opinion piece about contemporary politics. It states "In 1924, another would-be lynch mob was thwarted only when a local baseball hero, John Franklin (Home Run) Baker, prevented its members from lynching a Black man accused of assaulting Baker’s sister-in-law." No source is provided by the New Yorker for any claims to fact in this article, including this one.
Sounds like an interesting story I've never heard before. A couple preliminary searches turn up this new thread, the New Yorker article, and nothing else. Anyone seen any reasonable evidence or the full story?
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