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STLTHMSTA:
On Saturday I was watching a national morning news broadcast. One subject to do with today's Super Bowl (GO BENGALS!) was the breaking of the color barrier that happened before baseball. To be brief when Paul Brown, founder of the Cleveland Browns 9early 40's) and later Cincy Bengals went against the other owners and hired 2 black players. One of whom was Bill Willis, father of our own Ohio member Clem Willis.  It was nice to see a shout out to a connection to one of our members.
I'm not sure how many of the 6 degrees of separation (of Kevin Bacon) this qualifies for but I thought I'd mention it. You can learn more at the Cleveland Browns Hall of Fame site.     TM

HawkGTRider:
That's very cool.

When I was a young kid, I considered history to be something I just had to get through in school. But as the years passed, something changed. Now I'd rather spend time in a museum, reading a good book about some historical event, etc. History has somehow become very neat. I think the change may have started when I was in undergraduate school. Music history had the potential to be pretty dry. But a pretty good professor made sure to relate each period in music to what was going on in the respective composers' country. Changes in style were related to what was going on politically, economically, and many other influences. History became a whole lot more relatable.

Patmo:
I knew that Clem had played ball, but I didn’t realize who his dad was.  That’s really cool.

WHO DEY!

RichGrab:
Very cool and interesting fact. Thanks for sharing and filling us in. And yes to Geoffrey - I too enjoy history. Now, for the game I sure hope Matt Stafford gets the win. He suffered with mediocrity in Detroit for so many years - and I did live in the greater Los Angeles area for about 30 years - so GO RAMS!!

Paco Bulto:
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing that, Tom. I didn't even know that Clem played, much less about his father's history.

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