
Meet the Real Joe Black
Joe Black was a baseball pioneer, the first black pitcher ever to win a World Series game. He was Jackie Robinson''s roommate on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Joe Black then became the only Major Leaguer to become a full-time public school teacher after his baseball career ended. The Black family lived in a very modest house right next to the authors father''s auto body shop near the railroad tracks in...
Joe Black was a baseball pioneer, the first black pitcher ever to win a World Series game. He was Jackie Robinson''s roommate on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Joe Black then became the only Major Leaguer to become a full-time public school teacher after his baseball career ended. The Black family lived in a very modest house right next to the authors father''s auto body shop near the railroad tracks in...
