I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled , this is the history of black sports. So i had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the men. One of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play with the man said he had a file where women across the country were writing in to request tryouts. That stuck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, is there a lot of black girls history trying to play baseball, maybe theres is a Hidden History here. So that made me go out to find other stories in the book, from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, really looking at black women in sporting history in the 20th century. Let me talk about two names, oe is quite familiar
Victim may have developed symptoms while on a princess cruise ship the travel to mexico and doctor back in San Francisco last month. At least one other person on board that trip was infected. We have Live Team Coverage tonight with the latest on the governors message to new details about the grand princess the ship where people may have been exposed to the virus. We begin with kron 4 sailors sacking live at pier 27 where the ship departed taylor. Another victim who died in Placer County was here at pier 27 in San Francisco, not too long ago. He was here on february 21th which also raises concerns about exposure in the city and to his fellow passengers still on that same cruise ship for now showing symptoms theyre still 62 people on board that ship from the previous wage to mexico. The addition of thousands of other new passengers on this latest trip which has now been halted Governor Newsom says the ship was supposed to arrive in San Francisco tonight. But thats no longer the case inst
Well that victim who died in Placer County was here at pier 27 in San Francisco, not too long ago has here on february 21th and obviously that raises concerns about possible exposures to people in the city and 2 people still on that ship that are now showing symptoms now the governor is calling in resources keep those possible exposures on that ship at bay. Vernor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency after a rockland man died while in isolation at a roseville hospital on wednesday. Marking the first coronavirus death in california that individual. Came back with a number of others into not only Placer County area but many other were on that cruise from the state of california by one estimate. Im over 50 of the passengers which total roughly 2500 passengers that does not include the crew. Are californians. The an early victim became sick while aboard the grand princess cruise ship that docked in San Francisco late last month before the same ship left for another cruise to hawaii j
Governor announced the ship is being held off the coast until the testing is for sale of a second joins us live from San Francisco tonight with the latest on this taylor. Im not too long ago that victim was here at pier 27 in San Francisco, obviously raising some concerns here about possible exposures people in the city and still passengers that are still on that ship now experiencing symptoms. Well thats why governor Gavin Newsome said that hes declaring the state of emergency hes calling in more resources now to keep any possible exposures and cases on that ship at bay. California is now in a state of emergency after its first coronavirus death tied to more possible cases on a princess cruise ship the elderly victim died on wednesday while in isolation at roseville hospital a couple of weeks prior he became sick on the grand princess cruise ship as it docked at pier 27 in San Francisco from mexico that individual. Came back with a number of others into not only Placer County area but
I thought, hmm, if theres a lot of black girls and women in the mid century trying to play baseball maybe theres a longer history here. Thats what set me out to find some of the stories in the book that take us from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, and looking at black women and sporting history in the 20th century. Two names, one quite familiar, hank arron and stony stone . Yeah. Again, like i said, those baseball women who i stumbled upon, they were brought in at the kind of fall of the negro leagues. The negro leagues had been a huge institution in the black community. It provided ownership and upward mobility for Business Owners and opportunity to play for black men at the time. Always pushing for integration of the majors. Jackie robinson broke formally the color line. What we see after that is an exodus of the top tier talent. Theyre going into the majors with no compentation back into their teams. The negro leagues are in steady decline. People are looking around trying