Greenville native, John Whiteside, lived during the period of the Black Baseball League. As a kid, his heroes were like big brothers. He stays in touch with them to this day. Whiteside’s encyclopedic knowledge of the epoch has become the basis for a book called the “Voices of Meadowbrook” by local writer Mike Chibbaro. You will agree that such a repository of history can easily justify a series on the Black Baseball League. We start with a brief overview of the historic peri
