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They held the wedding at Griffith Stadium, home to Washington s old Major League Baseball team, the Senators. The bride from Arkansas and her procession walked a satin carpet from the dugout to an altar at second base. And those who shared in the festivities on July 3, 1951, reportedly more than 19,000 of them, were mostly Black women who paid from 90 cents to $2.50 a ticket: roughly $10 to $30 in today s dollars. ....

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