The Jamestown Red Sox were an integrated semi-professional

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team based in

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, in the 1930s. The Red Sox played independently of any league because their mixed race roster was a problem in a period of

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. As their player-manager from May to October

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, Ted Radcliffe became the first black man to manage white professional players. With backing from the local Gladstone Hotel, the team also signed Barney Brown, Bill Perkins, and

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to become the strongest team in North Dakota. The club played 56 games in that year going 40-16.Various 'Hall of Merit discussion:Ted Radcliffe', ''Baseball Think Factory'' (2005)
Retrieved July 25, 2005. After the regular season, the Red Sox played the Earl Mack Major League All-Stars featuring

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, Pinky Higgins,

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and Earl Whitehill. Jamestown won three straight games against the "All-Stars". The team played in grey flannel jerseys decorated with a black felt letter "J" on the left breast and a red felt sock on the right sleeve.

Notable players

* Barney Brown (1934) *

(1934) * Showboat Fisher (1934) * Bill Perkins (1934) * Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe (1934)

Notes

References

'1934 Jamestown Red Sox', ''Pitch Black Baseball'' (2005)
Retrieved August 29, 2005.

External links

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