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Current Issue:
Tell Me a Story: Folktales Then and Now
Tell Me a Story: Folktales Then and Now

Negro Leagues Baseball (3/00)
Negro Leagues Baseball

Get your baseball bat and cap and join us as we meet the players and managers of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Read about the remarkable achievements of Moses Fleetwood, "Fleet" Walker, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, and Martin Dihigo. Read, too, of the great organizing skills of Rube Foster and Gus Greenlee. See and analyze the games with reporters Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, and Chester Washington. Follow the careers of Jackie Robinson and Saitchel Page who broke down discriminatory barriers. Meet a few players and listen as they tell their stories. Learn, too, about the rules of the game and how they have changed through the years. You'll also read of the changes in equipment and uniforms. Join us for what promises to be a very exciting and informative issue!

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