Mookie Wilson Batting for Metropolitan Jr. Baseball League

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[Mookie Wilson], the first AfricanAmerican to earn a baseball scholarship to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, was in New York last week where he put on a clinic at Annunciation Field, 134th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, in West Harlem. "African-Americans have been a part of baseball history since its beginning. We cannot deny that," said Wilson as he sat down to lunch at a west side restaurant in Manhattan.

With planning underway for the annual Inner City Classic, featuring the Black World Classic, Mookie said this is a major tournament for youth.

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Mookie Wilson Batting for Metropolitan Jr. Baseball League

For the past 43 years, the Metropolitan Jr. Baseball League (MJBL) has quietly but efficiently gone about thei...

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