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Time Tour: Black baseball in Hot Springs

January 29, 2021 1:22 p.m.

Late in the 19th century, as Jim Crow laws were enacted, Major League teams began to bar participation by Black players, a sad fact that would not change until Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As a result, Black baseball leagues developed on their own terms. - Photos courtesy of the Garland County Historical Society

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