“Gibson's batting feats were mythical, his power was legendary. His stroke blended the power of a piston with the smoothness of a cue ball. He was the ‘king of swing,’ he mastered the masters, from Ruth to Reggie.”
"There's a couple of million dollars worth of baseball talent on the loose, ready for the big leagues, yet unsigned by any major league. There are pitchers who would win twenty games a season . . . and outfielders who could hit .350, infielders who could win recognition as stars, and there's at least one catcher who at this writing is probably superior to Bill Dickey --- Josh Gibson. Only one thing is keeping them out of the big leagues, the pigmentation of their skin." Which was written Shirley Povich of the Washington Post in
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