: Paul Batura: Charley Pride dies — country music star bounced back after baseball stardom eluded him

Paul Batura: Charley Pride dies — country music star bounced back after baseball stardom eluded him



Baseball’s loss was the music world’s gain when Charley Pride failed to make it from Negro League Baseball to Major League Baseball and took up music instead. On Saturday the world suffered the loss of the first Black superstar of country music when Pride died at 86.

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