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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season w/13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%.

#MLB #BLM #nlbm #BlackMastodon #nowplaying #music #joinin #apba

#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your
guess. Anyone can play.

https://youtu.be/jyc0JSd5q7U

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I do love this song, but it's only on listening to it now that I realize, after 45 years, that its rhythm track has pretty much been lifted bodily from Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON...

#nowplaying

https://youtu.be/R686uRAzwIk

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BELL, TIGERS, TAKE FIRST GAME OF SERIES FROM RED SOX

Cool Papa Bell (2-3, 2 RBI, SB) lifted his average to .367 as Detroit dispatched Boston in the opener of a four-game series at Briggs Stadium. Hal Newhouser (6-8) got the win.

BOSR (31-39) 1 6 1
DET (34-36) 7 14 0

#1947League

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Today's #1947League game brought to you by your Commissioner ... and by the #GratefulDead, who asked their family doctor just what they had.

https://youtu.be/Ymvcv7E9SHo

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One guess only. Identify the Negro Leagues ballplayers inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame *before* Cool Papa Bell was inducted in 1974.

#1947League #baseball

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You are CORRECT, @ted_duffield!

🎉

What song would you like to hear?

#1947League