Marty Lurie7-17 Chris Lamb joins Talkin' Baseball with Marty to discuss his book- "Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War"
Author Chris Lamb joins Talkin' Baseball with Marty to discuss his book- "Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War"
When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life.
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