Growing up in St. Louis many of the players featured in this flood were familiar to me. Eddie (the Brat) Stanky, is the first manager of the Cardinals I remember, for instance.
Fawcett seemed to have made a point of covering the early African-American ML players and the previous color-barrier. That was pretty brave at the time and a change from a few years earlier when editors told Mac Raboy that Freddy Freeman's birthday party could not include a "Colored" child.
If you visit Kansas City, my hometown, you can visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
https://www.nlbm.com
