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  1. Gibson (Gibson, Bob - Player) -- Homestead Grays
    In '32, Gibson, along with other Grays such as Oscar Charleston, Double Duty Radcliffe and Jud Wilson, jumped to the Pittsburgh Crawfords, joining Satchel Paige on another incredible team. Paige and Gibson, the two biggest drawing cards in Negro League history, helped the Crawfords pack the newly built Greenlee Field (named after owner Gus Greenlee) in Pittsburgh, and helped them win a roving "Negro League World Series" title over the champions of the South (the Monroe, Louisiana Monarchs), and champions of the West (Chicago American Giants).
  2. The Black League -- Jackie Robinson
    There is a reason why so many young black men have tried to follow in Robinson's footsteps, pouring all their ambitions into the hope of a career as a pro athlete. Sport is one of the few arenas of American society in which the playing field is really level. If you get across the finish line first, you win; no one claims that you're lowering standards. If you're as good as Robinson was, your acclaim transcends racial boundaries. But unless you get the chance to compete, you can never demonstrate your ability.
  3. Baltimore Orioles -- Oriole Park
    The 2006 Baltimore Orioles will be starting with a clean slate. Buying Orioles tickets and heading to Oriole Park won’t entail the endless Sammy Sosa downward spiral or the eternal questions about Palmeiro banging steroids into his veins anymore. The distractions of the past few seasons have been removed. Now the question is what’s next for Baltimore Orioles ticket holders and their team?
  4. Delroy Lindo -- Court Tv
    On the small screen, Lindo was recently seen in Lackawanna Blues for HBO and in The Exonerated for Court TV. He ... portrayed Ricardo Thornton in the critically acclaimed CBS drama Profoundly Normal. He starred as Clarence Thomas in the Peabody Award winner, Strange Justice, directed by Ernest Dickerson and co-starring Regina Taylor, Louis Gossett Jr., Paul Winfield and Mandy Patinkin for Showtime, and portrayed baseball legend Satchel Paige in the stirring sports drama, Soul of the Game. Delroy also played Arctic explorer Matthew Henson in Glory and Honor for TNT and appeared in HBO's First Time Felon.
  5. Newspapers in America -- Work
    Harris was a photographer for the weekly Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newspapers in America. He portrayed, in exceptional black-and-white photographs, life as he found it in the streets, workplaces, nightclubs and ballparks of Pittsburgh. Some of the celebrities he photographed included Lena Horne, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Satchel Paige and John F. Kennedy.
  6. Delroy Lindo -- San Francisco
    The son of Jamaican parents, Delroy Lindo was born and raised in London, England until his teens when he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada. A little later, they moved to the States where Lindo graduated from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
  7. Birmingham Barons -- Teams
    Constructed in 1910 as home to the Birmingham Barons and named for local iron baron Rick Woodward, Rickwood later became home field to the Birming-ham Black Barons, whose stars included Willie Mays and Satchel Paige. Today, the City of Birmingham owns Rickwood, and the Friends of Rickwood manage it. City school teams play ball in the now classic park where fans watch from the nation’s oldest baseball grandstand on its original site. The field ... plays host to the Annual Rickwood Classic, movie filmings and other events.
  8. Delroy Lindo -- Acting
    Delroy Lindo is a true actor. You really believe that he got into acting because he loves it for what it is. You'll never see him in any tabloids and you won't hear any gossip about him.
  9. Delroy Lindo -- Cider House Rules
    Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952) is a Tony Award[2] and Screen Actors Guild Award- nominated Satellite Award- winning British actor. Best known for his roles as Mr. Rose in The Cider House Rules and Catlett in Get Shorty.
  10. Jackie Robinson -- Montreal Royals
    In 1946, in Jackie Robinson's first year with the Montreal Royals, the fans yelled racial slurs at him on and off the field. Pitchers intentionally threw at him while he was at bat. In Indianapolis, Jackie was not allowed to play because a local law prohibited interracial competition.
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