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Galesville Hot Sox Field at Wilson Park

Galesville Hot Sox Field at Wilson Park About:  The Galesville Hot Sox team was formulated in 1915 as a traveling sandlot baseball team made up of members of the thirty to forty African American families who lived in Galesville. Many of them were descendants of slaves and sharecroppers, and many of these first players would become role models to younger players in the future. Many Hot Sox attended or joined the team after attending the Rosenwald School, a one-room elementary school for African American children that was built in 1929, expanded to two...