There might not be a more important story in American sports than that of Jackie Robinson, writes columnist Jerome Solomon. But did you know Houston is home to its very own baseball legend? Meet J.C. Hartman, the first Black baseball player in Houston.
Robinson that the University of Texas integrated its football team.
Special is indeed a proper descriptor. We’re talking about a man who played in the Negro Leagues, is a retired Houston policeman and, as a barber’s college graduate, cut Willie Mays’ hair.Two weeks ago, he told me he was on his second-story roof doing work.“If you have a leaking roof, what are you gonna do, son?” the longtime Third Ward resident asked.
Hartman got one at-bat in the game, striking out with one out in the bottom of the ninth in a 7-0 loss before a crowd of 4,580 at Colt Stadium. His long-anticipated call-up to the majors received just a small note in the Chronicle. The bigger news of the day was that Cardinals star Stan Musial, “a master model for American boyhood,” was in town for the weekend.Two sentences listed under “Colt Notes,” falling after the announcement of Camera Day, during which camera buffs could take pictures of the players before the Sunday game:
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