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Picture shows Ted Poston [reporter for the New York Post], with his wife and a friend, enjoying a Sunday ball game at the Black Yankees field in Harlem. Poston is the only Negro reporter on a metropolitan newspaper here 
[Harlem Loves Baseball as Played by the Native Black Yankees] 
1936 
  
Gelatin silver print 
8 x 9 7/8 ins 
  
Courtesy of the Lucien Aigner Estate 
 
LL/43237 
  
From the photo story "Harlem Loves Baseball as Played by the Native Black Yankees," assignment for Life (New York), unpublished.
 
"Negroes are, for the most part, good athletes. They are also enthusiastic sports fans. Particularly baseball. Professional Negro ballplayers are considered the most colorful, the most brilliant performers in the annals of the game. The Black Yankees, for example, a minor league team, is made up of great baseball players. They play a show-off game; one-hand catches, picking up zingling "grounders" while doing a jig, etc., mark every game played by the team. When the Yankees come to town, Harlem turns out en masse to cheer their athletic heroes on to victory."
 
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