Sherman Leander Maxwell was an American
sportscaster and chronicler of baseball's Negro League. Many veteran
journalists of his day, including Sam Lacy of the Baltimore Afro-American,
believed that Maxwell was the first African American sports broadcaster in
history.
It was an assertion that many in the
mainstream press also accepted, and Maxwell himself sometimes stated that he
had in fact been the first. He was known by the nickname of Jocko.
Despite
his many accomplishments over a broadcasting career of more than four decades,
Maxwell was rarely paid by the radio stations he worked for during his career.
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