Layered history per @BeschlossDC Jackie Robinson signs before game during Dodgers spring training, Havana 1947: pic.twitter.com/H2qsGYjTKr”
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Layered history per @BeschlossDC Jackie Robinson signs before game during Dodgers spring training, Havana 1947: pic.twitter.com/H2qsGYjTKr”
@BeschlossDC Dodgers trained in Havana that spring to avoid segregation in Florida.
@tomhawthorn @BeschlossDC All American Girls Baseball League also trained in Cuba that year and apparently drew larger crowds than Dodgers.
@lajeer Including several Canadians. Alas, the AAGPBL remained segregated.
@tomhawthorn My secret dream is to produce a radio doc about the remaining players. Amazing women and their numbers are dwindling.
.@lajeer I've interviewed a number and the roster shrinks every season. We lost another a month ago:
http://benchedathletes.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/dora-shero-witiuk/ …
Best get started
@tomhawthorn @lajeer sigh....like WWII vets....we mourn them so
@rodmickleburgh @tomhawthorn Sadly, that's usually the way I tell their stories - through obits. I'm on it. Thanks for the push.
@BeschlossDC I wish we could still have Spring Training in Cuba. #Cubs
@BeschlossDC @jaketapper Just watched 42. What a classy young man. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
@BeschlossDC Back when travel to Havana was actually unencumbered.
@BeschlossDC The best.
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