Negro Leagues Players Honored With Gravestones

Negro Leagues Players Honored With Gravestones

by GREG ECHLIN

June 18, 2011

Dink Mothell played in the Negro Leagues for 15 years. He died in 1980, and his gravesite has been just a patch of grass, no nameplate, marker or anything. On Saturday, a ceremony will at last grant Mothell's gravesite a tombstone, the result of efforts by two men to locate the remains of former Negro Leaguers. Greg Echlin reports...

The stars of Negro League baseball often amassed statistics that rivaled and sometimes surpassed those of their white counterparts in baseball segregation. But records of those achievements can be spotty. So, too, can be records of the final resting places of many of those players...

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