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Earl Brown

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By Stephen Eschenbach, Niko Yaitanes, Will Halsey, Stu Rosner
| Harvard Magazine Verified
On December 22, 2020, Earl Brown ’24 became Harvard’s latest major-league baseball player. That would be Earl Brown, class of 1924, a star pitcher who went on to pitch for the New York Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League. In December 2020, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred corrected an historical mistake by designating the Negro Leagues as major leagues, making their players major leaguers.
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Fritz’s Fame

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By Brett Hoover, Stephen Eschenbach
| Brown Alumni Magazine Verified
On February 5, the day before the New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX and Paul McCartney brought a G rating back to the game’s half-time show, Frederick Douglass Pollard was voted—finally—into the National Football League Hall of Fame. “It was a shoo-in,” noted one sportswriter who was present at the vote. While publishing a newspaper, Pollard also set up Suntan Studios, where such entertainers as Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole rehearsed.
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