This is the first installment during Black History Month of HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites in “trading card” format. While Johnson C. Smith University and Livingstone College have not supported baseball programs since well before the mid-twentieth century, the two rival schools had epic battles on the baseball diamond in the 1920s.
We’ll keep a lookout for Hayes. Bun was a great one! A number of years back, your mom sent me some scans of some family photos of him. As I recall, one was of him playing in the band at Mary Potter High School in North Carolina
I loved finding this in my search for Bun Hayes today. Bun was my grandfather and my son, named Hayes, is a newly committed pitcher at Morehouse! The HBCU tradition continues.
Great stuff.