This article is not one of my own but is from one of my writers at I-70 Baseball. It is a great look at Civil Rights, human nature, and baseball. In honor of Black History Month, various sites are taking the time to look back at Negro League Baseball. I-70 will be running articles all month. I share this one with you today...Meeting A Negro League LegendTodd FertigI-70 BaseballHistorical research and the proliferation of information on the internet has allowed today’s baseball fan to learn more about the Negro Leagues than in times past. But in 1991, my knowledge of Negro League baseball didn’t go much further than the movie Bingo Long’s Traveling All-Stars.So when I was told that a former Negro Leaguer was living right there in my college town of Manhattan, KS, I didn’t have much opportunity to research his career. Little did I know that George Giles, living right under our noses, was one of the best players of his era.I heard he ran a bar that sat in isolation on the south sid...
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