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Gallery Talk: History of the Negro Leagues
With summer and baseball season in full swing, head to the Wadsworth to hear Hartford-based historian and activist Steve Thornton’s examination of how Black and Latino baseball players paved the way for the contemporary game and became sociocultural icons for their respective communities.