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  • Black Baseball in Detroit

    by Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller and Dick Clark
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    HENRY KIMBRO




    [Briggs] Stadium was used as a neutral site for Negro League games in the 1940s. It was during this period that Baltimore Elite Giants outfielder Henry "Jumbo" Kimbro (pictured crossing the plate) hit a home run out of the stadium.






    From Black Baseball in Detroit by Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller, and Dick Clark.
    Copyright © 2000 by Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller, and Dick Clark. Excerpted with permission.
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