Article: Northwest League -- Bears honor Yakima's black baseball history.

Byline: Roger Underwood

Aug. 25--YAKIMA -- They often had to sleep on the team bus. They usually had to shower at the local YMCA or police station. But the Yakima-based Washington Browns played baseball despite such hardship, and they did so for the same basic reason most Negro League teams did during the 1930s -- because they loved the game. "They had to get the necessities of life through other means," said Hattie Barnes, whose husband Sanford Barnes was a team member. "But they still played. It was something they enjoyed." Barnes, accompanied by sons David and Dean, presently lives in Shoreline but on Sunday came to Yakima County Stadium as the ...

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