somewhere in the Northwest.

We're going to get the stadium fixed for you.

Good arm, line-drive-type hitter, but a good friend of mine. A good friend of mine because he started with the Monarchs in '37 and I got there in '38.

He was a competitor,

A lot about the game has changed, and thankfully, much of it is for the better. There is still work to do, but today we have a Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, we have black owners, managers and executives of teams...and look what Nike has done! The Untold Truth Collection represents more than a jersey or a pair of sneakers. It represents our lives, our story, our legacy.

He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudice. There was my father and then there was J. L. Wilkinson.