Don't be so hard on him, ... Maybe he's got a young boy of his own at home.
It's just a few of us left, especially the old-timers. The guys after Jackie Robinson, we got quite a few of those left. But the guys before Jackie Robinson, there's very few of us left.
He was a competitor.
It turned out better actually than I thought it would, you know. This is outstanding.
A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.
It would mean a lot for us to go in together. J. L. Wilkinson was an outstanding human being. He was like a father to me.
He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudice. There was my father and then there was J. L. Wilkinson.
He was wonderful and kind, always insisting on gentlemanly behavior and a good suit.
Somewhere in the Northwest.
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