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Born: January 4, 1900 in Pittsburgh, PA us. Died: November 14, 1969 (Aged 69-314d) in Pittsburgh, PA. Buried: Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA. Full Name: William Goldwin Nunn. View Player Info from the B-R Bullpen. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. Bill Nunn Overview. Lg Stats. Bill Nunn page at the Bullpen Wiki.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Even as the Negro Leagues began their decline in the wake of Organized Baseball’s integration, the East-West All Star Game continued to be an annual event until 1962.2 According to author Larry Lester, “[T]he span beginning in 1933 and ending in 1953, alpha to omega, Genesis to Revelation, signals the most celebrated period in black baseball history.”
Baseball History Daily. Contact; Tag Archives: Bill Nunn Jr. Segregation and Spring Training, 1961 11 Apr.
May 7, 2014 · Bill Nunn Jr., a black sports reporter for The Pittsburgh Courier, could not sit in the press box at Forbes Field three years after Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But on a May night in 1950, the white members of the Baseball Writers Association of America finally relented: He could sit with them when a team with a black player came to town.
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Jun 18, 2021 · 18Jun. Twenty-five games into the 1925 season, the independent Homestead Grays had won 23 games, lost one and tied one according to The Pittsburgh Courier. Bill Nunn of The Courier called the club, “Pittsburgh’s one winning ballclub,” and regionally the “greatest drawing card in baseball.”. He estimated that more than 70,000 fans ...
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The group chose Romeo Dougherty of The New York Amsterdam News, Frank (Fay) Young of The Chicago Defender, W. Rollo Wilson and Bill Nunn of The Courier, and John Howe, the editor of The Philadelphia Tribune; Howe had died 12 years earlier. And finally, the consensus of the group for “greatest player, all things considered,” was Oscar ...
