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Baseball's forgotten heroes

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Thursday, June 24, 2004

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- There are so many marvelous items in the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum -- Look! There's Satchel Paige's original headstone with only a question mark for a birthdate! -- that it's easy to miss a few. An old newspaper clipping commands my attention, though. The 1925 story in the Wichita newspaper previews a game between a local black team and a local Ku Klux Klan team. "Strangleholds, razors, horsewhips and other violent complements will be barred at the baseball game at Lol ...

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