https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/obituaries/mudcat-grant-dead.html?smid=tw-nytsports&smtyp=cur
Born in Florida of the "Tribe of Black Ulysses" and its traditions of solidarity and resistance, Jim Grant lived a long and productive life, making his mark on baseball, popular music, and race relations. In recent years his good work and deeds have been honored by the media and even the White House. Among other things, Grant's passing has me thinking of the degree to which major league baseball players of my youth were more integrated into the mainstream of American life in that they held a variety of jobs in the off-season even as they became sports stars. Am also thinking of baseball (past and present) as a collection of workers who play baseball--in Grant's case a lumber mill worker (and son of a lumber mill worker) who later became a pop singer. RIP Jim Grant.
