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Willie O'Ree, L.A. Blades

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Swiftie--Willie O'Ree, the "Jackie Robinson of hockey" and the first Negro to ever play in the National Hockey League, will be playing his third season of left wing for the Los Angeles Blades during the 1963-64 Western Hockey League campaign.
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Los Angeles Public Library

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California Digital Library

Keywords

  1. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  2. Hockey
  3. Hockey Players
  4. O'ree, Willie

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