Flood Washes Away Memories For Old Ballplayer
As many victims try to recover from this year’s Midwest flooding, one Negro League legend had all his baseball memories washed away.
Jim Litke of the ASSOCIATED PRESS has the story of Art Pennington, a former baseball star whose house was damaged when the Cedar River engulfed the town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And when then waters finally receded, Pennington’s collection of classic memorabilia was destroyed:
