Baseball fans are breaking the color barrier in a different way. The Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project was launched seven years ago to ensure that the league's players would at least have a well-marked place to rest. Started by St. Louis Cardinals fan Dr. Jeremy Krock of Peoria, Ill., the project has provided grave markers for 19 Negro Leaguers to date. Members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) provide the bulk of the project's funding. On June 29, William "Big Bill" Gatewood received a proper headstone. The 6-foot-7-inch star pitcher, who served as a mentor to the great Satchel Paige and Cool Papa Bell, had rested in an unmarked Columbia, Mo., grave site since 1962. Sap Ivory, a first baseman for the Birmingham Black Barons in the late 1950s, will have a proper headstone laid on his grave.
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