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    @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @stlcolorbaseball@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @cwgrody@mastodon.sdf.org @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community

    Wow. That is painful – and accurate. 😐

    So I’m going to give it to you, @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world … although another correct answer is that they were both batboys. Willard Brown was a spring training batboy for the KC Monarchs, for whom he would later star. They played in Shreveport before the season started.

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        @YusufToropov@toot.community @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @stlcolorbaseball@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @cwgrody@mastodon.sdf.org @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community First, because that’s such a downer, I owe everyone something from MC Hammer, so here’s the man himself in the home of the Yomiuri Giants. No batboy from Oakland ever traveled further to the home field of the Giants.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_cyRtb_04

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          @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @stlcolorbaseball@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @cwgrody@mastodon.sdf.org @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community

          Love it!

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            @YusufToropov@toot.community @tabletopmania@mastodon.social @RuthODay@chaosfem.tw @stlcolorbaseball@mastodon.social @ted_duffield@mastodon.social @cwgrody@mastodon.sdf.org @cbtryon@mastodon.world @sendtherunners@mstdn.ca @aurelia@mindly.social @BigEarl@mindly.social @baseball@a.gup.pe @OhhJim@sfba.social @APBAreplay@techhub.social @AlexanderRaine7@mastodon.social @mattmaison@mastodon.world @blackvoices@newsmast.community Keeping the 1947 spirit alive (and remembering that historic home run Brown hit in Detroit on August 13, 1947) how about “Time to Change Your Town” by Wynonie Harris?

            The Tigers would remain segregated until June 6, 1958.