Chicago baseball legend Alvin Spearman passes away

Former Negro League player and minor league legend Alvin Spearman, a Chicago native who helped promote the White Sox's Double Duty Day event, passed away.

The White Sox confirmed the recent passing of Spearman, 84, who threw 28 complete games while posting a 20-9 record for Stockton in the California League in 1958.

Spearman played in the Negro Leagues from 1949 to 1951, which including a stint with the Chicago American Giants, before playing for Lewiston of the Western International League in 1952.

"When I was playing, the country was divided, everything was either Negro or white," Spearman told ESPN in 2011. "Drinking fountains, restaurants, rest rooms, you name it. In organized baseball,…