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Wood: Black Cubs players got hate mail

ESPNChicago.com

Monday, October 26, 2009

Cleveland Indians closer and ex-Cubs ace Kerry Wood didn't dismiss the notion that Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley and other African-American players may have experienced racial insensitivity during their time in Chicago. "I know just from the experience of playing with those guys, and I've seen some of the mail that they get, obviously not a lot of us get that kind of mail," Wood said on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "I didn't, but there are people out there that got their beliefs ...

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