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Todd Stottlemyre – Society for American Baseball Research
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The Knoxville Giants, a Negro Southern League baseball team
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Knoxville Braves 12u Baseball
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All-Black Cannon Street team's journey to Little League World
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Knoxville fielded a baseball team in the Negro League
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