Charley Pride

Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938 in Sledge, Mississippi) is a former Negro League baseball player who became one of the only African Americans to have a successful career in modern country music.

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Pride was one of eleven children born to desperately poor sharecroppers. His father named him Charl Frank Pride, but due to a typing error on his birth certificate, he was legally born as Charley Frank Pride. He grew up dreaming of being a baseball player and met his future wife, Rozene, while playing for the Memphis Red Sox in Memphis, Tennessee (which was a Negro-American League team). Pride played guitar and sang while touring as a baseball player.

March 18: March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). There are 288 days remaining....

1938: 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar)....

Sledge, Mississippi: Sledge is a town located in Quitman County, Mississippi. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 529....

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