Wendell Smith covered sports, history and civil rights and traveled with Jackie Robinson. A new book remembers his work.

Influential Black sportswriter, Wendell Smith is the subject of a fine new book, 'The Wendell Smith Reader: Selected Writings on Sports, Civil Rights and Black History.'

Perhaps some of you gray hairs remember him. But even those who do not will meet, as the Tribune’s Bob Cromie put it after his death, “One of those rare persons who made the world a little better place, a little happier place, and little more decent place.”

On the Far South Side, there is the Wendell Smith Elementary School, a handsome building near a park where kids still play ball and, just maybe, dream big-league dreams.

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