The things you learn: the Tigers were segregated as late as 1957?The Special Negro Leagues Player Draft, aired live exclusively on BaseballChannel.TV, allows each Major League club to pick one surviving former Negro League player to represent every player who did not have the opportunity to play Major League Baseball.
Owens, who led the Huskie baseball program from 1976-82, played three seasons in the Negro Leagues (1953-55) as a pitcher/first baseman for the Detroit Stars. When baseball integrated in Detroit in 1957, Owens played for the all-white Detroit Pepsi-Cola team. During his playing career, Owens was a part of three high school championship teams and won four National Amateur Baseball Championships.
Current basketball coach Carol Owens (not a relative as far as I know) will coach the United States U18 basketball team, which will make a winter trip to Argentina. Should the team advance in the tournament, it will be eligible for the U19 world championship, which will play in Bangkok in midsummer 2009. The nomenclature appears to refer to apprentice players, younger than 18 or 19 respectively.
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