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Baseball Bloodline with a Civil Rights Legacy | New York Yankees News
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George Lombard Junior, the Yankees’ top prospect and son of a pro ballplayer and brother of a first-round draft pick, just made his MLB debut with a homer that eerily mirrored his brother’s historic blast. But his story runs deeper—his grandmother, Posy, a white Harvard dean’s daughter, was a fiery 1960s activist arrested multiple times in the South, fought KKK-backed segregation in Massachusetts, spent time in jail including a week in Montgomery alongside MLK and Malcolm X, and left behind a 300-page FBI file. This legacy of fearless justice is now woven into George’s baseball journey.
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