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John Brown's 1921 Cumberland Cubs remembered
By MIKE MASTRANGELO
Special to the Times-News
For a half century, our national pastime excluded black athletes from its fraternity. These black (base) ball players endured segregation and pursued the game they loved by establishing their own formal leagues and independent teams. They barnstormed against one another; and when their summer season was over in the United States, they traveled to Cuba, Mexico and South America to play in the more socially tolerant Latin American countries.