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Negro Southern League Museum Celebrates Jackie Robinson Day Early


Former Negro Leaguer Ernest Fann, 77, poses with 8-year-old Romello Ivy at the kickoff of the Jackie Robinson Day celebration at the Negro Southern League Museum in Birmingham, where it s more like Jackie Robinson week. (Solomon Crenshaw Jr. / Alabama NewsCenter)
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Alabama Newscenter
One day just wasn’t enough to celebrate the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Saturday, officials at the Negro Southern League Museum began several days of celebrating the legacy of former MLB great Jackie Robinson with a drive-by Honk For History.
Patrons were invited to honk their car horns as they drove by the museum on 16 ....

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Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier but these Black players still faced racism


Jackie Robinson broke baseball s color barrier but these Black players still faced racism
Updated 3:02 PM ET, Thu April 15, 2021
Ernest Fann played in the Negro Leagues with the Raleigh Tigers in the 1950s and spent time in the minor leagues for affiliates of St. Louis and Kansas City.
(CNN)Ernest Fann never imagined his baseball career would be tainted by racism more than a decade after Jackie Robinson s debut.
Somebody told me baseball was a White man s game, he says about a teammate who approached him while he sat on the bench. It was the early 1960s and Fann was playing for the Burlington Bees, a minor league affiliate of the Kansas City Athletics in Burlington, Iowa. ....

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