Arlington and Lou Henderson recall their time in the Negro Leagues as Major League Baseball honors the Black men who played professional baseball in the era of Jim Crow.
Brothers Lou and Arlington Henderson posed for a portrait at Arlington’s home in West Philadelphia on Thursday, May 16, 2024. They are among a few dozen elderly Black ballplayers who will be honored June 20 at the MLB Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala.The call came so late in the day that Arlington Henderson didn’t have time to tell his parents.
He had an opportunity to play down South in the late 1940s when the New York Giants organization wanted him to join their minor-league team in the South Atlantic League — or Sally League, as it was called. Someone said that “they have too many of“But that wasn’t quite the term they used,” his son Kevin added. So instead, Henderson went to Canada and played on teams from Quebec to Saskatchewan.
He cherishes a laminated poster from that year, when he played on the Lachute Tigers, and he offered a story for every face:There’s no account to be found in the Philadelphia papers of the Mother’s Day game that Arlington remembers playing, not even in, said records of Black baseball in that era are notoriously incomplete, and coverage in the press was spotty.
, is building a record of every game Paige played, but he has not yet gotten to 1955. “I don’t think the fact there isn’t documentation doesn’t mean it’s not true,” he said. “The facts that we know are true is that Arlington told you this story. That’s your truth.”Arlington Henderson got up twice that game against the crafty old pitcher famed for being so certain he’d strike out the side that he’d bring his outfielders in.
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