Traveling exhibit
on the Negro
Baseball League
reached Boston.
Magical names;
Papa Bell, Satchel Paige,
Buck Owens, Oscar Charleston,
and many others
played in obscurity
while “organized” baseball
got the big bucks
and national adoration
until Branch Rickey
and Jackie Robinson
broke the barriers.
America missed so much
of the “national pastime”
until the barriers
were breached.
THE POETRY OF THE GAME