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Integrating Josh Gibson’s Stats into MLB Records: Acknowledging the Legacy of Black Baseball Players from South Carolina
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Integrating Josh Gibson’s Stats into MLB Records: Acknowledging the Legacy of Black Baseball Players from South Carolina

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Preach Jacobs
Jun 05, 2024
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Nostalgia is often a thing that Black Americans have a hard time doing.

In baseball, the sport is all nostalgia as films like “Field of Dreams” are pre-integration baseball porn that romanticize Pickens, South Carolina native Shoeless Joe Jackson, made famous for being part of the 1919 Black Sox World Series scandal. Despite his coming clean and his ban…

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