
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, February 14, 1994                   TAG: 9402140094
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO 
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BASEBALL

In Palm Bay, Fla., Richmond native Ray Dandridge, a Hall of Fame third baseman who played in the Negro Leagues and the minors, died Saturday. He was 79.

Dandridge was considered one of the best third basemen ever but was little known to baseball fans because he played most of his career during an era when blacks were excluded from the major leagues and media coverage of the Negro Leagues was minimal. Dandridge spent five years in the minor leagues after Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

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