RBE Baseball Blogging: RIP Double Duty
[click on the title for the bat-girl link]I meant to type this myself today, but generating equipment lists, reading SOPs and re-doing p&ids got in the way...so I'll just take from bat-girl here - she links to the good ESPN article as well as a Chicago Tribune article...
He was 6 years old when the Cubs last won the World Series. And he was 15 when the White Sox last captured it all.That should help long-suffering Chicago baseball fans put into perspective the remarkable life span of Theodore Roosevelt "Double Duty" Radcliffe, believed to have been the oldest living former Negro leagues baseball player. He succumbed to cancer at his South Side home Thursday at the age of 103.
He was an all-star catcher and pitcher in the Negro leagues for half a century, including a stint with the Chicago American Giants in 1934, 1941-43 and again in 1949-50. He played in Negro leagues All-Star games in front of 50,000 people at the old Comiskey Park. He also played in an exhibition game at Wrigley Field in 1945, the year the Cubs went on to win the National League pennant.
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