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Remembering the career of Al Hrabosky
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Very early one Sunday morning in the very late 1970s, I was behind the wheel of my truck with a couple of friends, parked outside of a country and western bar in Salina, Kansas, preparing for the drive home after a night of beer drinking and line dancing. Suddenly the doors to the bar flew open and a small cowboy burst out. He wasn’t your typical Kansas cowboy, he was Asian, quite possibly Japanese, and appeared to be about 5’6 and maybe 125 pounds. He gave his cowboy hat to a friend and proceeded to warm up with a series of kung fu moves. In those days, nobody called it martial arts. Everybody was kung fu fighting.
In between weather forecasts on Fox 2 St. Louis Monday morning, where snow is stacking up high in the streets, St. Louis Cardinals play-by-play voice Mike Shannon gave an interview
Charley Pride was traded to the Birmingham Black Barons for a bus
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
Posted Dec 13, 2020
Former Negro League basbeall player and country music great Charley Pride waves to fans prior to the start of ESPN Classic s Vintage Live Birmingham Black Barons and the Bristol Barnstormers game at Rickwood Field in 2006. News staff photo Tamika Moore bnbn
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In 1999, Pride told former Birmingham News reporter Bill Plott about how he was traded to the Birmingham Black Barons in 1954 in exchange for a team bus. This is the article in its entirety:
If the story’s not quite true, it ought to be because so many people have heard it and believe it: Charley Pride and a teammate were traded to the Birmingham Black Barons for a team bus.