F.R. Penn
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Throughout baseball?s history of cheaters and scandal, there is only one phrase that can sum up the result of the intentions of those trying to reinvent the rules of baseball for personal gain and that phrase is - "Cheaters NEVER prosper."
A Wheel Within a Wheel The Negro Leagues
- By F.R. Penn
- Published 05/3/2006
- Recreation and Sports
- Unrated
Historians are just beginning to chronicle the major role that Black athletes played in making professional baseball popular. When the majors started to become popular in the early 1900?s, an unwritten barbaric rule went into effect that kept players of color out of professional baseball.