Summoning A Forgotten Slice Of History
PHILADELPHIA (CBS)—You can almost envision him standing there in his catcher’s gear behind home plate, a large, thick torso, with vice-grip hands and an imposing glare.
His memory has always been there, lurking, hovering. His special stamp on baseball was so significant that it couldn’t be buried by history, nor entombed by the ignorance of a time that almost seems surreal.
On November 10, Raleigh “Biz” Mackey will be channeled again, resurrected from the past as a member of the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. Many historians consider Mackey the greatest catcher in the Negro Leagues and he’s certainly one of the greatest baseball players that ever played in this area.
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