GreenvilleOnline.com 3 weeks ago

Baseball exhibit looks at pride, passion of black baseball experience

As a left-fielder for the Greenville Black Spinners in the 1940s, Cornell Blakely traveled the Carolinas playing other black semi-pro baseball teams. Hed grown up in West Greenville involved in the sport from the get-go. Full Article at GreenvilleOnline.com

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