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    Chet Brewer's best delivery was helping Black players reach the major leagues

    LOS ANGELES — It was only one at-bat, but it changed the direction of Reggie Smith's career. Long before he was a World Series champion, a seven-time All-Star or 17-year major league outfielder, Smith was a young player growing up in South Los Angeles, trying to become a switch-hitter during his high school years. One day early in the process, he came to the plate with men on base. Even though ...
    by Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times Apr 17, 2022 5 minutes
    Chet Brewer, a former Negro Leagues star who became an influential— if often overlooked— part of baseball's history, helped dozens of players reach the majors, cultivating a generation of baseball excellence that resonates to this day.

    LOS ANGELES — It was only one at-bat, but it changed the direction of Reggie Smith's career.

    Long before he was a World Series champion, a seven-time All-Star or 17-year major league outfielder, Smith was a young player growing up in South Los Angeles, trying to become a switch-hitter during his high school years.

    One day early in the process, he came to the plate with men on base. Even though a right-handed pitcher stood atop the mound, Smith initially stayed on his familiar right-handed side of the plate, the place he felt most comfortable for a leverage at-bat.

    But then, Smith's coach called for time. As he did for so many players, over so many years, Chet Brewer needed a moment to impart some wisdom.

    In an era of change for baseball, just a couple of decades after Jackie Robinson

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