The Sports Beat newspaper column

Date1946 February 23

DescriptionThe February 23, 1946 issue of The Sports Beat newspaper column written by Wendell Smith. The article is regarding an article from The Sporting News claiming that it is the fault of the Negro leagues that African-Americans are not in the Major Leagues. The article goes on to criticize baseball writers as a whole of being unfair and biased. The article has been pasted to a piece of blue paper.

Object numberBL-1997-00571-013

Subject Chandler, Happy, 1898-1991

Attributes

Classificationsmanuscripts (documents)

Collection NumberBA MSS 001 Wendell Smith papers

Dimensions8.5 x 11 in.

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