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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

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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

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DONE!

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YANKS UNLOAD AGAINST BUMS

Al Smith, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto all homered in the Bronx Bombers' victory over the visiting Dodgers. Barney Morris picked up his sixth win. Yanks back in a first-place tie with the Browns in the American.

BKN (46-29) 391
NYY (42-21) 681

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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @ted_duffield and by Willie, Mickey, and the Duke!

#baseball

https://youtu.be/fWKA9Zi5-_Y

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So I asked Google to find a rock and roll song about #baseball to pair up with "Willie, Mickey, and the Duke" and it came up with this one, another '80s classic...

#NowPlaying #1947League
https://youtu.be/6vQpW9XRiyM

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Though frankly, I would say Nolan's delivery is a bit more glorious than the one the Boss shows off in this video. :-)

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Today's hero, Al Smith, helped to win matching pennants for the very same city -- securing the flag as a regular in both the NAL and the American League.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Name both of those teams.

One guess only.

#1947League #baseball #nlbm #nal

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Cleveland Buckeyes and Cleveland Indians?

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CORRECT! What song would you like to hear, @RuthODay?

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Even though it was an imaginary game, I feel bad that Willie Mays was on the losing side in the Danny Kaye song.

So let’s have Say Hey, the Willie Mays Song.