Carl Long Hall of Fame Pioneer Broke Racial Barriers in Baseball
Hall of Fame inductee Carl Long rose from the Kinston Eagles to become the first African American in the Carolina League in 1956 He set a Kinston single season RBI record and later broke barriers as a police officer and bus driver He reflects on discrimination and service to his community and remains active in promoting equality and youth sports initiatives
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Negro League star Carl Long visits SC church conference
Staff photographer notes Carl Long a Negro League Hall of Famer and wife Ella with son Sotello visiting the H Odell Weeks Activities Center for the South Carolina Regional Conference of the Christian Church. Randy Russell to discuss his ghost story book Ghost Cats of the South at Aiken County Public Library Friday Oct 24 at 4 p.m. Family event.
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