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The Legend Behind the Plate
nybaseballdigest.com - 10/24/2009
The Legend Behind the Plate
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A group of journalism students at Duquesne University have put together a new documentary about Negro League star Josh Gibson. The documentary tells of Gibson’s legendary baseball accomplishments, one of them being whether he actually hit a home run out of the old Yankee Stadium in 1934, but ...
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