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#YIAY how #1947League Dodger star Johnny "Needlenose" Wright was connected to the real-life Brooklyn club. Answer: He was the second Black player Branch Rickey signed, after Jackie.

#baseball #BlackHistoryMonth

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#YIAY to name the #Dodgers Hall of Famer who played against the inimitable Silvio Garcia in Cuba...and judged him to be one of the best pure hitters never to make it to AL/NL.

A: Tommy Lasorda, who was a pitcher back then.

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#YIAY what league the Monroe Monarchs, the team Barney Morris broke in with, played in. That's the Negro Southern League, fated to be the sole functioning Black baseball league in 1932. For that one year, they were a major league.

#1947League

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#YIAY how Leon Day of the Newark Eagles figured into one of the most controversial #WorldSeries games in #MLB history.

Day was a ringer hired by the 1942 Homestead Grays to defeat the KC Monarchs. League officials threw the win out!

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