In the depths of the Depression, nearly 100 years ago, a remarkable thing happened in Chatham, Ontario. A baseball team, comprised solely of Black players, won the provincial championship. In the process - more than a decade before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in Major League Baseball - they did what might have once seemed impossible. Heidi LM Jacobs documents that story in her new book, "1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars' Barrier-Breaking Year." Jacobs, along with Deirdre McCorkindale. board member of the Chatham Kent Black Historical Society and an assistant professor of History at the University of Guelph, discuss this momentous event.

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