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Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Cristóbal Torriente

Major League Baseball had, with a few exceptions, relegated the two-way player to the minor leagues by the 1920s. However, the opposite was true in the Negro Leagues. Major or minor, two-way players had been a fixture of every level of the Negro Leagues since the first leagues were formed and the 1920s were no […]

Posted on March 22, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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