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Word: sonnyman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pennant. The club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Josh the Basher | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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