1939 newspaper with coverage of BALTIMORE Black Sox NEGR0 baseball team

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1939 newspaper with coverage of the BALTIMORE Black Sox, an early NEGR0 baseball team
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inv # 9V-201
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Baltimore News-Post
(MD) dated July 3, 1939.
This newspaper contains an inside page heading and news coverage of the
BALTIMORE BLACK SOX, a semi-pro NEGR0 baseball team
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These Black Sox referred to here were a semi-pro team formed by a former Black Sox pitcher, Laymon Yokely.
I have 2 issues of this newspaper with the same date of July 3, 1939, the same Black Sox article pictured in the photo in this listing,  but with slightly different front page headlines.
Rare LOCAL coverage of early semi-pro NEGR0 baseball in the era of Jim Crow sports.
Laymon Samuel "Norman" Yokely (May 30, 1906 – November 26, 1975) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played college baseball while attending Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina and played professionally from 1926 to 1946 with several teams.
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