Sport: The Other Foot

In Chicago, the Giants of the Negro American League announced that they were signing on a new outfielder and new pitcher recruited from a local high school. Both were white teenagers, the first in the league's 17-year history. Said League President J. B. Martin: "These boys were taken on their merits as ballplayers."

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