#Shortstops: Air Jordan, Cumberland Posey and other dual threats
Acting as player, manager and businessman, Posey led the renamed Loendi Big Five to four consecutive Colored Basketball World Championships, cementing their place in history as a basketball powerhouse and solidifying Posey’s place in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Posey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
Ivy Houde is a 2018 membership intern in the Hall of Fame’s Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development
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