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Record keeping was haphazard in the early days of baseball - it was even less standardized for African American players in the early days of the Negro Leagues. Even so, with the statistics we do have available, we can say for certain that Spottswood Poles was one of the best. With hitting like Ty Cobb and speed that rivaled Cool Papa Bell, its likely that if Poles played in the hayday of the Negro League, not long before Jackie Robinson shattered baeball's color barrier, that he would be in the Hall of Fame today.

His career was interrupted by World War I. He joined the unit that would go on to become the Harlem Hellfighters (see Episodes 31-32) and see some of the heaviest fighting of any American unit in the Great War.

Today's Ghost of Arlington is:

Army Sergeant Spottswood Poles (Section 22, Grave 2324)

The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and recorded by the eldest Ghosts of Arlington, Jr. While the rest of his catalogue is quite different from what he's performed for me, you can find his music on bandcamp.com under the names Caladrius and Bloodfeather.

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