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In a small farm community in Delaware Twp., N.J., in 1955 a group of 14, eleven and twelve year old boys, were about to embark on a journey of playing Little League Baseball that summer that would change their lives forever. For this team of Delaware Twp., became the first integrated Little League Team to make it to the Little League World Series Championship Game in Williamsport, Penna. This is their story of getting to Williamsport. The trials and tribulations that this Little League Team endured and overcame, makes the 1955 Delaware Twp. Little League Team worthy to be put in the category as "A TEAM TO REMEMBER."
A collection of photographs documenting the human experience at the Memorial site.
When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. White teams refused to take the field with the Cannon Street All-Stars, the first Black Little League team in South Carolina. The Cannon Street team won the tournament by forfeit and advanced to the state tournament. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little Leag...
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