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Inspirational Negro Leagues documentary recalls greats who endured hardship but played with passion

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Chicago American Giants founder Rube Foster (center, with the 1916 team) went on to organize the Negro National League.

As many a Chicago baseball fan knows, the first Major League All-Star Game was played at glorious Comiskey Park (“The Baseball Palace of the World”) on the South Side on July 6, 1933, with a crowd of 47,595 looking on as an American League team with a roster that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons and Jimmie Foxx defeated the National League by a tally of 4-2.

But this was not the only All-Star Game played at Comiskey during that era.