June 22, 2022 – What does a young orphaned Black boy, Decatur’s first opera house, and the baseball team that would become the Chicago Cubs have in common?
Macon County’s official historian, Mark W. Sorensen, ties all those strands together. Sorensen will deliver the tale of Decatur’s racist link to Albert Spalding, Cap Anson and the famous 1888-1889 American Baseball World Tour. The event will take place on Sunday, June 26, at 2:00 p.m. at the Macon County History Museum. The event is free.
Find out what happened after African-American Clarence Duval’s talents were discovered in Decatur in 1888, and how he was treated going around the world with America’s most famous athletes.
