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Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Ossie Orwoll

By the late 1920’s the idea of the two-way player had been pushed to the back of the baseball landscape. At least this was true in the white major leagues, where things had become more set in stone as far as positions played are concerned. In the Negro major leagues and minor leagues across the […]

Posted on March 8, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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