All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Walter "Slick" Schlichter: Pioneer in Black Baseball

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April 02, 2024 2:32pm

25m

ABC #061 - Part 1

Henry Walter “Slick” Schlichter started as a bantamweight and a boxing promoter who became a sportswriter and then partnered with Black baseball pioneer Sol White to organize the best Negro league team in the country at the turn of the 20th century.