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Photograph of the Gainesville Eagles baseball team. The Gainesville Eagles baseball team, photographed in 1949, included, from left to right, seated in the first row, Hubert Brooks, T.Davis, Jeff Johnson, two unknown persons, Lamb Sheperd, and Benny Rucker. In the second row were William Johnson, Booth Rucker, Ollie Williams, Billy Clyde, and Cal Hart. In the third row were Herman Johnson, Clyde Riley, Dude Mack, George Banks, Edward Johnson, and Lovie C. Smith. In the fourth row were Ralph Slaughter, William Johnson, Newt Randolph, Charles Mitchell, Roger Wilmont and Booth Roper. This picture was taken on Fair Street on the steps of the old red brick building of Fair Street School.Caption: "Hall County Black History Society (0065) Gainesville, Georgia."Digitized by: Digital Techniques, Inc.Electronic version made available through a federal Library Services and Technology Act Grant and Georgia Public Library Services
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Hall County Black History Society (Ga.)
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Keywords

  1. African American Athletes
  2. African American Baseball Players
  3. African Americans
  4. Banks, George
  5. Baseball Teams
  6. Brooks, Hubert
  7. Clyde, Billy
  8. Davis, T
  9. Fair Street School (Gainesville, Ga.)
  10. Gainesville
  11. Gainesville Eagles (Baseball Team)
  12. Georgia
  13. Hart, Cal
  14. Johnson, Edward
  15. Johnson, Herman
  16. Johnson, Jeff
  17. Johnson, William
  18. Mack, Dude
  19. Mitchell, Charles
  20. Randolph, Newt
  21. Riley, Clyde
  22. Roper, Booth
  23. Rucker, Benjamin
  24. Rucker, Booth
  25. Sheperd, Lamb
  26. Slaughter, Ralph
  27. Smith, Lovie C
  28. Sports Teams
  29. Williams, Ollie
  30. Wilmont, Roger

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