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Cubs historical sleuthing: Ernie Banks baseball card error edition
Here’s why it’s not: That... is emphatically NOT Ernie Banks. This is from Upper Deck’s Hall of Famers set, released in 2001. My friend and Cubs By The Numbers co-author Kasey Ignarski sent ...
‘Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Minoso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams’
New book from Don Zminda on how the lives and careers of two Chicago legends tell a story of integration on and off the ...
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Topic: Ernie Banks
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association have donated $1 million to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. DENVER -- As a result of being forced to ...
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Ernie, Minnie … and Charles?
Not until 1953 did the Cubs integrate their major-league roster by signing Ernie Banks out of the Negro Leagues and calling up Gene Baker, who had languished in the minors for four seasons.