South Side team lives up to Jackie Robinson’s legacy

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WILLIAMSPORT, PA. — You don’t realize how big the Little League World Series is until you actually see the small town nestled among towering hills and trees.

It is here — away from Chicago’s segregated South Side — that you get how ironic it is to have an all-black little league team play in Williamsport when Jackie Robinson left the Negro leagues to integrate Major League Baseball 67 years ago.

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