This is awesome, with a few appearances from former Mayor Anthony Williams (nice bow tie dude!). If you’re a baseball fan and a history fan, watch the whole thing. It’s an excellent history on the Homestead Grays, the Negro League baseball team that was founded in Pittsburgh and eventually closing out their existence occupying Griffith Stadium.
Check out this great photo, dug up from the Smithsonian’s website.
This summer the DC Grays, a newly formed team in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League, took the field at Gallaudet University. http://www.dcgrays.com/
The wood-bat team has “kind of made it [our] mission to make us a real
destination for some of the best black college ballplayers in the
country,” said Mike Barbera, the team’s president. http://wapo.st/JJGI7p