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The 11-year-old and his family opened up about the boy pulling the rare Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skenes baseball card.
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2010. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.