wife $100.00 to make sure he got a proper Christian burial, and they expected everything to go on as before. But Tom Day wasn’t just another Negro plant hand. He might have been the most famous man in Kellyville at the time, despite the fact that most white residents hadn’t heard of him. 

In some ways, Tom’s life was a bit like Colgan’s might have been if he had lived out his athletic dreams and eventually come back to Kellyville. Tom was the best student and best athlete they’d seen at the Negro school and had played every sport there was to play there. Like Colgan, he played football, but baseball was his true love. They said nobody in the state touched his fastball for two seasons when he was in high school. He was pitching for the B...

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