St. Paul Colored Gophers (Baseball team)
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St. Paul Colored Gophers (Baseball team)
"The St. Paul Colored Gophers was a small club of black baseball players formed in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1907.[1] They were not a formal Negro league team, as the commonly referred-to "Negro leagues" were not created until 1920. However, like other barnstorming teams of the time, they put considerable pressure on the desegregation of baseball. Historians rarely mention the Colored Gophers in Negro baseball history, and statistics are hard to find."--Wikipedia, 2021
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Object number: BL-1999-01139-001
Johnson, George, 1890-1940
probably 1909 May 22