“COLORED GIANT FOR COKATO”

Article by Mike Worcester from the Cokato Historical Society's newsletter In the Midst Of, May, 2015, Vol. 35 No. 2. 

Cokato Enterprise, ​May 31, 1915

It is understandable how a modern audience might be taken aback a bit by title of this article.  Please realize though it is not us writing.  Notice the quotation marks?  This title comes from the headline of a May 13, 1915, Cokato Enterprise article.

​The “giant” being referenced is Bobby (Bob) Marshall, who by the time he arrived in Cokato was a legend in the Minnesota sports community, going back to his days as a student at Minneapolis Central High School. 

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