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Let’s build a statue to Louis Sockalexis, baseball’s first Indian, in Bangor

November 15, 2015 By Ed Rice

Let’s build a statue to Louis Sockalexis, baseball’s first Indian, in Bangor

By Ed Rice, Special to the Bangor Daily News He was a college baseball player so legendary in his time that he was inducted into his school’s athletic hall of fame, even though he only attended two years. Then he broke a color barrier and became the first man of his race to play professional baseball. Then he became a professional baseball star, in spite of being subjected to the vilest of racial prejudice and violations of his civil rights from fellow players, fans and the press. Without … [Read more...]

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