Remembering a Baseball Player So We Don’t Forget the Mistakes of Our Past

February 18, 2010 by Jon Pessah · Leave a Comment

A good friend of mine lost a good friend yesterday. My friend is Claire Smith, and her friend was Alfred â€œSlickâ€ Surratt. Slick was a player for the Kansas City Monarchs, a teammate of Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson in the Negro Baseball League. He died at 87. Claire was one of the first women […]

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