Wendell Smith served as the voice of Black baseball during segregation. He was paid by the Dodgers to travel on the road with Jackie Robinson as he prepared to break the color barrier.
Smith was born on March 23, 1914, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His father was the chef to automobile tycoon Henry Ford.
Smith excelled at sports and was an All-City baseball player as the only Black student at Southeastern high school. He would later go on to play baseball for an American Legion team.
He later attended West Virginia State College, a historically black public college in Institute, West Virginia where he was also the sports editor of the school newspaper.
Smith graduated in 1937 and began working for the Pittsburgh Courier. He started out as a sports writer and became the sports editor a year later. He covered many teams, including the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, both of which were baseball teams in the Negro Leagues.
He used his position to protest segregation in professional sports. Smith played a significant, if not the main role in the desegregation of professional baseball in 1946. He is actually credited with recommending Jackie Robinson to the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey.
Smith later moved to Chicago and joined a white-owned paper, the Chicago Herald-American, for which he covered mostly boxing. In 1948, his application to join the BBWAA was approved, and he became the first African-American member of the organization, though he would become the second member of the BBWAA behind Sam Lacy.
He moved to television in 1964, when he joined Chicago television station WGN as a sports anchor. During this time, he continued to write a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Smith died of pancreatic cancer at age 58 in 1972, just a month after Robinson died of a heart attack. Coincidentally, Smith, too ill to attend Robinson’s funeral, wrote his obituary.
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http://aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/wendell-smith-sportswriter-helped-desegregate-baseball
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In December of 2017, Donald Trump made history by recognizing Jerusalem as the captial of Israel. Why is this big news? Because by this the Jewish people of Israel are now able to press forward in bringing about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
The Jewish people deny Jesus as their Messiah and have stated that their Messiah has been identified and is waiting to be revealed. They say this man will rule the world under a one world religion called “spiritualism”.
They even printed a coin to raise money for the Temple with Donald Trumps face on the front and with king Cyrus'(who built the second Temple) behind him. On the back of the coin is an image of the third Temple.
The Bible says this false Messiah who seats himself in the Third Temple will be thee antichrist that will bring about the Great Tribulation, though the Jewish people believe he will bring about world peace. It will be a false peace for a period of time. You can watch interviews of Jewish Rabbi’s in Israel speaking of these things. They have their plans set in place. It is only years away!
More importantly, the power that runs the world wants to put a RFID microchip in our body making us total slaves to them. This chip matches perfectly with the Mark of the Beast in the Bible, more specifically Revelation 13:16-18:
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
Referring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. RFID microchip implant technology will be the future of a one world cashless society containing digital currency. It will be implanted in the right-hand or the forehead, and we cannot buy or sell without it! We must grow strong in Jesus. AT ALL COSTS, DO NOT TAKE IT!
Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” (Revelation 14:9-11).
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