May 25 – Jimmie Crutchfield, star player of Negro League baseballPart of the History of baseball series. In the early years of Major League Baseball, which coincided with the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War, there was no color line. African-American ballplayers such as Bud Fowler, Frank Grant, Fl (d. 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.)
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