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Culture in inner America.(the American Midwest analyzed)

The American Enterprise

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We came to North Dakota for baseball. Fargo was a charter member (1902) of the Northern League, which in four incarnations has organized the American game in the Northern Plains. The 1908 Fargo team included Richard Brookins, the twentieth century's first black member of an integrated professional team, and before the third version of the Northern League folded in 1971, it had nurtured such black players as Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, and Willie Stargell.

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the Northern Plains were invisible to the blinkered businessmen who run major league baseball. So in 1993, a fourth Northern League was born: an independent association whose "founders ...

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