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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Writing about Josh Gibson right now...
Why is it that it took me ten years to realize that the X-Files baseball episode "The Unnatural" was about Josh Gibson, and the alien in the character "Josh Exley" was a metaphor for the alienation black ballplayers felt for not being allowed to play Major League Baseball?
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Daedalus,
What has generated your interest in the Negro leagues?
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