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Cardinal Conversation: An unexpected find reveals a bit of Lynchburg's baseball history

Seventy years ago Jackie Robinson was the most famous athlete in America. Even people who didn't follow baseball knew the name of the first Black man to play in the major leagues.

When Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers played a 1952 exhibition game in Lynchburg 5,000 people turned out to watch.

Now, an unexpected discovery has made that game a topic of conversation again. Fred Echols spoke with Mark Robertson who wrote about the find for Cardinal News.

Cardinal News is a non-profit, independent, online news organization covering Southwest and Southside Virginia.

Fred Echols is a producer/reporter for Radio IQ.