John Donaldson: Black Baseball Legacy Restoration

Pete Gorton is a Negro League Historian and a founder of The Donaldson Network, a group of amateur historians dedicated to the rediscovery of the lost baseball career of John Wesley Donaldson. For more than twenty-three years he has conducted a daily pursuit of the “Greatest Colored Pitcher in the World.”

Pete’s work can be found in numerous books and publications and on informative social media accounts like “X” (Twitter) (@TheDonaldsonNet), Facebook (The Donaldson Network Group) and YouTube (The Donaldson Network) with more discoveries being unearthed daily.

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