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July 30th, 2009, 07:00 AM
Former Southern baseball player remembers Title season
Reported by: Sean Fazende, Sports
Email: [email protected]
Contributor: Lance Washington, Chief Photographer
Last Update: 6/08 12:11 pm
For Herman ‘Dusty’ Rhodes, the last half-century has gone way too fast.
“It just brings back memories of what we did,” Rhodes said.
In 1959, Rhodes was a freshman for the ‘Southern Nine,’ the Southern Jaguar baseball team who became the first all African-American team to be invited to the NAIA Championship.
“I didn’t know we were the only black team invited,” Rhodes recalled. “We just went up there and played baseball.
Coming from the SWAC to the NAIA Championship, the ‘Southern Nine’ had a few things to get accustomed to.
They had never played a night game, but the real shock came a few games later, when the all-white crowd started cheering for the Tournament’s only all-black team.
http://www.fox8live.com/conten...o8ka7mCJ46_88aA.cspx (http://www.fox8live.com/content/sports/sportsfeatures/story/Former-Southern-baseball-player-remembers-Title/QVzKM_To8ka7mCJ46_88aA.cspx)
Reported by: Sean Fazende, Sports
Email: [email protected]
Contributor: Lance Washington, Chief Photographer
Last Update: 6/08 12:11 pm
For Herman ‘Dusty’ Rhodes, the last half-century has gone way too fast.
“It just brings back memories of what we did,” Rhodes said.
In 1959, Rhodes was a freshman for the ‘Southern Nine,’ the Southern Jaguar baseball team who became the first all African-American team to be invited to the NAIA Championship.
“I didn’t know we were the only black team invited,” Rhodes recalled. “We just went up there and played baseball.
Coming from the SWAC to the NAIA Championship, the ‘Southern Nine’ had a few things to get accustomed to.
They had never played a night game, but the real shock came a few games later, when the all-white crowd started cheering for the Tournament’s only all-black team.
http://www.fox8live.com/conten...o8ka7mCJ46_88aA.cspx (http://www.fox8live.com/content/sports/sportsfeatures/story/Former-Southern-baseball-player-remembers-Title/QVzKM_To8ka7mCJ46_88aA.cspx)