How bigotry crushed the dreams of an all-Black Little League team

By: Chris Lamb, Indiana University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: November 8, 2025

Words: 1,491

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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John Rivers, John Bailey, David Middleton, Leroy Major and Buck Godfrey – all teammates from the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Star team – left Charleston, South Carolina, on a bus on Aug. 18, 2025.

After a stop at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, for a couple days – where their story is included in an exhibit on Black baseball that opened in 2024 – they headed to …

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