Transcript: Writer Wendell Smith to Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame

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July 30, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: The late sportswriter Wendell Smith will be honored during the induction ceremony at baseball's Hall of fame tomorrow. A long time reporter, both in Pittsburgh and Chicago, Wendell Smith was the first African-American admitted into the Baseball Writers Association, and he made the integration of baseball a personal crusade. He arranged a tryout for three stars of the old Negro leagues, and one of those players, Jackie Robinson, caught on with the Brooklyn Dodgers. And at the request of owner Branch Rickey, Wendell Smith roomed with Jackie Robinson during much of his first tumultuous major league season. Robert Browning is with the Baseball Hall ...

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