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“Harvard Varsity Base-Ball Team.”...
A rare original photograph of Harvard University’s 1904 baseball team, featuring pathbreaking star shortstop William Clarence Matthews, who broke the color barrier in professional baseball and went on to work in Washington, D.C. as one of the first African American Assistant Attorneys General. Seated second to the left in the.....