Negro League All Star Art Pennington's Home Destroyed by Iowa Floods

This morning CNN.com ran a story about a former Negro League All-Star named Art Pennington.  "Superman", as he was known during his playing days, lives in my hometown of Cedar Rapids, IA (which I was wholly unaware of until reading this article.  Art, who is 85 years old, lost everything in the house where he raised his children, including a small "museum" of priceless artifacts from his life in the Negro leagues. This man, who played against all the greats (Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, etc...) and was kept out of Major League Baseball for his entire career had his life swept away by the rising waters of the Cedar River, but more than that, as a nation we lost a treasure trove of priceless artifacts from our collective history.  Mr. Pennington may be just one among thousands that lost pieces of their lives to the recent flooding, but his loss is a loss for all of us, as many of the artifacts contained in his home are now at the bottom of the only recently receded Cedar River. Mr. Pennington needs help to put his life back together (which at 85 is going to be hard enough without the loss of the story of his life).  Please visit his MySpace blog and donate anything you can to help one of the greatest living American baseball players rebuild. Additionally, if you have a minute, swing by digg and help this get to the front page.

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