irvin brooks, PR man

I had long ago (more than a year, in fact) promised to post an article from the Baltimore Afro-American authored by the Brooklyn Royal Giants’ great Irvin Brooks—the player who has mistakenly been called Chester Brooks in most histories and reference books.  I’ve finally managed to dig it up from my files, so here it is.

BaltAfroAm_2.22.1924

(Baltimore Afro-American, February 22, 1924)

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