King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson's Legacy | Pittsburgh Magazine
King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson’s Legacy A century has passed since the founding of the Negro Leagues, and the great-grandson of the game’s most feared yet forgotten hitter is fighting for the recognition of Pittsburgh’s Black baseball history. November 11, 2020 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHUCK BEARD He has a set of hands that could wrap around the trunk of a Southern Live Oak — the state tree of his native Georgia — and a pair of forearms that could snap one in half. It’s sometime in the 1930s in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh when he steps up to the plate and bashes a baseball ...
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