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James Beckum, Who Taught Hundreds of Youngsters Baseball and Self-discipline, Dies at 95

A former Negro Leagues player, Beckum started a Little League in one of Milwaukee’s most disadvantaged areas Until he was almost 90 years old, James Beckum cared for the baseball diamonds where his Little Leaguers played with fastidiousness and pride. He cut the outfield grass. He picked up litter. He drove the base paths in

James Beckum, Who Taught Hundreds of Youngsters Baseball and Self-discipline, Dies at 95

A former Negro Leagues participant, Beckum began a Little League in one among Milwaukee’s most deprived areas

Till he was virtually 90 years outdated, James Beckum cared for the baseball diamonds the place his Little Leaguers performed with fastidiousness and pleasure. He lower the outfield grass. He picked up litter. He drove the bottom paths in his little orange tractor, smoothing the grime. His pastor, Johnny White Jr., stated, “Once I would name his home searching for him, and his spouse would reply the cellphone, I’d say, ‘Is Brother Beckum there?’ And she or he’d say, ‘No, he’s down on the park, taking part in within the grime.’ ”

Beckum was a founding father of the Beckum-Stapleton Little League on the North Facet of Milwaukee, one of many metropolis’s and the area’s most deprived neighborhoods. Based in 1964, Beckum-Stapleton is believed to be one of many oldest Little League exterior of the South that’s traditionally Black. And just about proper up till his demise, on Nov. 11 at age 95, Beckum was its steward and guiding gentle.

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