THOU SHALT Not Steal:
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Negro League Catcher
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A Selection of Negro League and Related Links 


  • Philadelphia Stars Memorial Park (operated by the Business Association of West Parkside)
  • Negro League Baseball Players Association
  • Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
  • Negro Leagues Legacy (operated by Major Leagues Baseball) 
  • Blackbaseball's Negro Baseball League, site of Negro League Historian and Author James A. Riley,
  • Site of Negro League Historian and Author Larry Lester
  • Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Negro Leagues Research Committee
  • Center for Negro League Research
  • B.L.A.C.K (Bases Loaded Authentic Clothing and Kaps), A site for Negro League, Buffalo Soldiers, and Tuskegee Airmen merchandise
  • "The Road to Martin Luther King," a video about artist Sylvia Castellanos and her paintings of legendary African-Americans 
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The 1944 Philadelphia Stars team photo. That's Bill with his catcher's mitt, kneeling, last on the right. (Photo from souvenir booklet for 1999 The Seven Philadelphia Stars Baseball Foundation Inc., symposium.)
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Here are the 1955 Bismarck Barons of the ManDak League. Bill, third from the left, recalls he played with them for a season and had a terrific year: a .369 batting average with 15 home runs. Pictured from left to right: Bill Hockenbury, Pius Wolf, Bill, manager Al Cihocki, Bill Jankowski, Lloyd Gearhart, Art "Superman" Pennington, Ray Dandridge, and Pedro Gomez. (Credit: Bismarck Public Library, Bismarck, ND, and the private postcard collection of John S. Dosch.)
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A portrait photo of Bill in 1955, when he played for the Bismarck Barons.
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At a banquet given in his honor in 1985, Bill is surrounded by civil rights advocates the Rev. Robert Earl DuBose Jr., left, and the Rev. Paul Washington.
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An undated photo of Bill in a Philadelphia Stars uniform. The caption: "STILL PLAYING -- Bill Cash, one time catching great of the Philadelphia Stars is in Philadelphia awaiting call by a leading minor league baseball team. He may play with the Hollywood Stars on the Pacific Coast." Well, that never happened.
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The Hilldales, one of the most powerful teams in the old Eastern Colored League, was founded by Ed Bolden, who eventually founded the Philadelphia Stars in 1933. Hilldales Park, on McDade Boulevard in Yeadon, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia, is now home to a struggling strip mall.
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Bill, playing for the Mexico City Red Devils, waits to get into a game, sharing the dugout with a young fan.
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Part of a Culiacan (Mexico) team photo probably taken around 1950. Bill is standing, second from the right.
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Bill shows off some of his local Hall of Fame plaques at the dining room table of his home in West Philadelphia. Photo taken in the mid to late 1990s.
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