‘Lefty’ O’Neal: Crossing the color line in the Negro Leagues
A little bit of baseball history visited Southeast Alaska this summer. Dick “Lefty” O’Neal is the only person to have crossed baseball’s color line -- in the opposite direction. O’Neal is white, but he made his mark in baseball pitching in two of the country’s semi-pro Negro Leagues.He stopped by KCAW during a cruise ship call in Sitka recently, and spoke with Robert Woolsey on the front porch of the Cable House.
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