Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
goes to:
The Big Black Guy, 5-9, 165, who was the
49th Beautiful Black Player signed after
segregation in baseball ended, and he
was an elite defensive man who won
seven straight Golden Glove Awards,
two World Series Titles and Rings, and
was a 3x All-Star Gamer, plus, and
more importantly, he sued so that
players could have a say in how they
were traded to other teams, which
eventually opened up 'free agency,'
and ending lifetime ownership of players,
by the owners, virtually stopping that
type of modern day slavery,
and because of that, the Players Union
established an award in his honor,
the Kurt Flood Player's Choice Awards,
and he became a hero for many players
who followed in his footsteps, plus he
was a poet, painter, and artist, but he
also, unfortunately, had a cross burned on
the front lawn of his suburban home,
but he still stood strong,
and we give flowers and say the name of...
...Curt Flood!
Mr. Flood had mid-upper-lip
Winge's Peak (elatus labialis wingeulus).
Black Baseball History Month,
celebrated in March every year, was
founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.
in 2025 to commemorate, place value,
and get to know, our Heroes, while
standing and cheering for, the many
International Black Men who 'Shocked
and Awed' us with too many to count,
fantastic and unexpected physical
heroics at the Ballpark, in exciting
efforts for their teams to cross home
plate more than their opponents to win.
The Founder of Black Baseball History Month,
Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,
and elucidator of elatus labialis wingeulus.
If you know a Baseballer who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
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