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Baseball’s Baseball’s color color barrier barrier and and how how New Jersey changed the course New Jersey changed the course of of the sport’s history.

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PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Al Maghazehe, PhD, FACHE ∙ President and CEO, Capital Health Samuel J. Plumeri, Jr. ∙ Chairman, Capital Healthcare Corporation Board of Trustees Neighbors, As the region’s leader in providing progressive, quality patient care, Capital Health has been taking an organized approach to meeting the needs of the community during the COVID-19 crisis and going forward as restrictions start to ease. Under guidance recently announced by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, hospitals in New Jersey were permitted to resume elective surgeries starting Tuesday, May 26. Now we are ready to welcome patients back in a safe, healthy environment.

Through intensive planning to ensure the highest level of patient and visitor safety, our health care professionals at Capital Health are implementing a system of care that meets all requirements for providing great services in a safe environment. In addition to our usual robust disinfection protocols, we continue to take other necessary precautions to make sure the health and safety of our community and our staff remain our highest priority. We follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and use isolation precautions for hospitalized patients. We are also taking the following steps to ensure the safety of our patients and staff: …

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Drive-in culture roars back to life in Jersey

By Rob Anthes

America’s love affair with drive-in theaters started in New Jersey nearly 90 years ago, so it’s only fitting the drive-in has come roaring back to life in the Garden State as people search for a safe diversion amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Local governments and organizations across the state have turned to the drive-in movie as the go-to form of mass entertainment, while two venues in Lambertville have provided regular drive-in film screenings as a way to make up for a lack of indoor events.

Acme Screening Room had been doing virtual screenings since March, when the theater closed. As the summer approached, staff recalled that patrons in previous years asked the venue to show some films outdoors.

When someone offered to lend Acme Screening Room the needed equipment, everything lined up in order for them to give it a go this year.

Since June, Acme Screening Room has shown films in a parking lot on North Union Street every Saturday, calling the series “Carpool Cinema.”

Acme limits capacity to 35 cars, with tickets $40 per car.

At the June 20 show, musicians performed live before the film, and Thai Tida—which is adjacent to the North Union Street parking lot—provided Thai street food for purchase. Acme had its

usual selection of popcorn and candy.

The venue hopes to carry a similar atmosphere through the summer.

Films are typically announced a week ahead of showing, but Acme Screening Room already has secured “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Saturday, Aug. 1. Tickets go on sale Saturday, July 25.

As of press time, Acme Screening Room was considering moving July 4’s show to Friday, July 3. For the latest information on show dates and times, go online to acmescreeningroom.org.

Music Mountain Theatre on Route 179 in Lambertville has assembled an 8-week summer movie series, with films shown in the theater’s parking lot every Friday and Saturday night. Tickets are $25 per car, limited to 24 cars. In July, the features are “Avengers: Endgame” July 3-4, “Toy Story 4” July 10-11, “Frozen 2” July 17-18, “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark” July 24-25, and “Sonic the Hedgehog” July 31-Aug. 1.

Music Mountain Theatre actually had some experience in outdoor cinema, running a series of movies several years ago at Washington Crossing’s Open Air Theatre.

Its staff realized in March, when it closed, that their theater most likely would be shuttered for a long period of time. Like Acme Screening Room, Music Mountain Theatre did some virtual entertainment, but wanted something different. After getting the appropriate approvals and working

southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes will perform live for 1,000 cars full of fans at Monmouth Park saturday, July 11.

the same space Sunday, July 12.

Tickets for the Southside Johnny show sold out in hours. Gaffigan’s show sold out, too, about a month before his appearance.

Four people will be allowed per car, with nine feet of distance between cars.

Cars will be parked in a staggered fashion to allow for the most spacing and visibility. Concertgoers must remain inside their vehicles, wear a mask, and may only step out to use restrooms.

Monmouth Park plans to use portable, single-stall restrooms, which will be cleaned between patrons.

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It’s a good question, and one posed to us by a reader after we said, in our first edition of Six09 last month, that we’d cover what’s happening across the (609).

The image at right answers the question, and as you might see, at least one-quarter of the state falls in the area code—from Lambertville up north to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. (609) is the largest area code in New Jersey, and includes parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, Camden, Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and Cape May counties. It is home to places like Princeton, Trenton, Hammonton, Long Beach Island and Atlantic City.

There’s a lot of ground to cover in (609), which we hope means plenty of stories that will help you explore your home turf. If you come across something that might be a good fit, send an email to ranthes@communitynews.org.

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out the kinks with a staff-only dry run, Music Mountain Theatre had its first public showing June 19 with the film “Harriet.” It sold out.

Some adaptation has been required.

The staff has taken on new roles, with the artistic directors Jordan Brennan and Louis Palena now working as parking attendants. Producing director and board chair Ginny Brennan sells concessions. Social distancing guidelines are being used to park cars, as well as for concessions and restrooms. For the latest information, go online to musicmountaintheatre.org.

The drastic times have led to further innovations with the drive-in model, such as drive-in film festivals, concerts and comedy shows.

Long Beach Island’s annual Lighthouse Film Festival adapted the format it has used for the last 12 years, and offered two new ways to enjoy its films: virtually or June 16–20 at three drive-in locations along the island. The films showed to parking lots full of cinema fans, who used their car radios or mobile phones to tune in to the movie’s audio.

In mid-July, Red Bank’s Count Basie Center for the Arts will put on what’s being billed as the largest live concert of its kind anywhere. Using Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport as the venue, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes will perform Saturday, July 11 for 1,000 cars full of fans.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan will headline

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The power of bike-breathe-believe Despite Stage 4 lung cancer and a terminal diagnosis, Lawrenceville woman bikes cross-country

By Nicole Viviano

Biking across the United States is a memorable feat for anyone. One endurance athlete from Lawrenceville managed to complete the Southern Tier bike route while facing down an even greater obstacle: Stage 4 lung cancer.

Isabella de la Houssaye, 56, has lived an active lifestyle, from mountain climbing to Ironman triathlons.

Her love of nature and adventure were not going to be stopped, not even by a diagnosis she says is “quite terminal.”

She wants people to understand this is not a tale of her battle with lung cancer but a chance to improve the prognosis for future patients.

The fact that de la Houssaye has

Isabella de la Houssaye celebrates the completion of her cross-county bike ride in St. Augustine, Florida.

never smoked and didn’t drink alco- shattering to the married mother of hol, and all together lived a healthy, five and her family.

First diagnosed January 2018, de la active lifestyle, made the diagnosis Houssaye went through mutation testing to determine her course of treatment. By the time her cancer was discovered, it had spread from her lungs to her pelvis, spine, brain, sternum and adrenal gland, even though she just had an annual checkup months before and was declared healthy.

During the month of mutation testing following her diagnosis, her condition deteriorated until she finally found success with an experimental drug, osimertinib, which prevented the official school of American Repertory Ballet the cancer from progressing. She remained stable until September 2019, at which point the cancer progressed CRANBURY | PRINCETON | NEW BRUNSWICK again, and forced de la Houssaye to undergo radiation treatment to the sternum area.

Her doctors told her osimertinib works, on average, for 18 months.

The drug won’t get rid of the cancer but keeps it at bay. Still on the same treatment two years later, de la Houssaye has greatly surpassed her doctors’ initial expectations, both in terms of quantity and quality of life.

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own illness…to other people with lung cancer and realize how many of us are in the same boat and how many of us never smoked,” she said.

Upon receiving an unexpected stable scan in February this year, de la Houssaye decided to take advantage of her time. The triathlete proceeded to piece together a website and social media presence, Bike Breathe Believe, where she could share the facts about lung cancer and advocate for early diagnosis and improved treatment.

“The messaging—that is the most important—is I’m just a vehicle for the bigger message: People need to wake up and understand that lung cancer is actually a risk,” de la Houssaye said.

She knew she was capable of this challenge as she has traveled across countries by bike before. She has traversed through Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Taiwan, full countries in Africa, including Zambia, Namibia and Botswana, and the island of Tasmania in Australia.

The Bike Breathe Believe team was formed along with mapped out plans and advocacy events to be held along the cross-country journey.

Not knowing what each day would mean to her health was a factor in de la Houssaye’s chosen cross-country route. She planned to take the Southern Tier route for several reasons. It offers the flattest, shortest way across the country and a pathway through Crowley, Louisiana, her hometown where she was able to visit her parents for the Easter holiday. This route starts off at Ocean Beach in San Diego, California and finishes in St. Augustine, Florida.

De la Houssaye originally planned to split the roughly 3,000-mile trek into 10 stages, planning to stop in Phoenix, El Paso, Del Rio, Austin, Houston, Crowley, New Orleans, Pensacola and Tallahassee.

The Bike Breathe Believe website worked to track and report de la Houssaye’s 41-day trek across the country, while providing crucial information on lung cancer and offering notes on mindfulness and living with cancer or caring for a cancer patient.

De la Houssaye flew out to California on March 7, and held advocacy events the next three days.

Then, on March 10, she began her ride in the rain by touching her back wheel to the Pacific Ocean in front of a cheering section of cancer patients, two of her children, friends and family.

De la Houssaye was able to continue her treatment plan while on her ride—a daily dose of osimertinib.

The drugs—which cause nausea and

fatigue—and her past radiation treatment created side effects throughout her journey.

“I struggled with that the whole ride because it had weakened my sternum and all the muscles that attach to that,” she said.

But de la Houssaye refused to turn negative, saying the adrenaline and other hormones naturally created while exercising helped with some pain relief.

“Getting out in the fresh air and being active was a way to get my mind off of feeling bad,” de la Houssaye said.

Not far into her journey, de la Houssaye altered her path to be much more remote, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic which had reached a critical point around mid-March.

“We just started making a decision everyday in terms of looking at the route, making sure we were able to take back roads and avoid urban areas, and making sure that we could still find a place to stay,” she said. “It was a daily decision to continue on based on the safety for me, the safety for coming into contact and potentially spreading anything to someone else.”

As a high-risk individual due to her illness, abiding by social distancing and safety recommendations were important for her health. A major part of her trip was planned advocacy events and meetings in cities all along her path. These events were canceled, as were group biker meetups along her ride.

Instead of a group of bikers, the majority of her ride included a team consisting of her husband and two support people in a trailing vehicle from Velofix, a mobile bike shop that supports rides such as this. Loading up supplies and food in bulk in the vehicle allowed for fewer stops and possible risk of exposure.

Instead of being a social ride, the trip turned into something very different—a social distancing ride, de la Houssaye joked.

The big decision-making point came for de la Houssaye and her crew around March 18, when flights were being canceled and the realization that returning home would become much more difficult.

What eased the decision was de la Houssaye’s doctors recommending that she avoid flying, coming back to New Jersey or seeking her treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City, as she had done up until that point.

Before the pandemic, de la Houssaye would get scanned to reassess her prognosis every nine weeks in the city. Her medication was also managed in New York up until this past month due to the health risks. Scans were rescheduled by the doctors to avoid putting de la Houssaye in the high-risk environment. Her treatment is now being handled at Sloan Kettering’s New Jersey hospital locations in Basking Ridge and Middletown.

She said that if the doctors would have told her to return home she probably would have heeded their advice.

Isabella de la Houssaye started her cross-country ride by touching her wheel to the Pacific Ocean at Ocean Beach in San Diego.

“Things were changing, evolving pretty rapidly at that time,” she said.

At certain points the group would camp out, and other times track down places they could stay that were still open and away from major cities.

De la Houssaye camped out three times before they got to Texas and campsites were officially closed to the public. They had planned to camp a lot more along their route but just as they did with everything else, they had to adjust their expectations because of the pandemic.

Arrangements were made throughout their travels to stay at hotels and homes offered to them by people who were sheltering in place elsewhere leaving their homes empty. The team even stayed at vacant wedding venues—calling ahead to see if they could use their empty space.

The Bike Breathe Believe mission was moved solely to social media outreach, with blog posts updating readers on de la Houssaye’s progress and experiences.

Soaking up the scenery on the open roads and less populated parts of the country was one of the trip’s highlights, despite the changes made due to the coronavirus.

“The biggest impact for me is just how vast and empty our country is,” de la Houssaye said. “Because when you live in an urban, highly densely populated area you don’t appreciate…

Texas for instance, we biked hundreds and hundreds of miles and never came to a town. That kind of vastness is incredible. And the beauty, the natural beauty.”

De la Houssaye wanted to use her trip to connect not only with advocacy groups and those who can share her message but with patients and all people in the dire situation lung cancer has placed its victims.

“Everybody who has lungs should care about this,” she said.

The Bike Breathe Believe site remains up and running, even after de la Houssaye completed the Southern Tier route on April 21.

The next step for de la Houssaye is to continue to refine the advocacy that Bike Breathe Believe was initiated

for. This broader platform is meant to continue her work in hopes of bettering the chances for future lung cancer victims.

During the course of her crosscountry ride, approximately seven patients in de la Houssaye’s small lung cancer support community passed away. According to the American Cancer Society’s 2020 estimates, there will be about 135,720 deaths from lung cancer in the United States.

“There’s a huge disconnect,” she said. “There’s so much that needs to change if we’re going to try to get a handle on this disease.”

Along with her continued goal to raise awareness for lung cancer, de la Houssaye sits on the board of Princeton in Asia, a nonprofit connected to the university, as well as Give Back Yoga. She has been heavily involved with the Arts Council in Princeton and even co-owns a small business in Philadelphia, Material Culture.

The triad branding and symbolism used on the Bike Breathe Believe site were selected to project the functions of the site clearly. The Sanskrit symbol for breath is used as part of the logo, along with common yoga imagery.

The “Thrive” piece of the site delves into yoga and meditation practices, and exercise, nutrition and integrative medicine information and sources. De la Houssaye’s long commitment to full body healthy living was an aspect she wanted to highlight in her overall mission to help others.

Helping to plan the trip and man-

age the day-to-day logistics was de la Houssaye’s husband, David Crane.

Husband, master ride planner, logistics coordinator and part-time biker and driver—Crane supported all aspects of the journey.

Both Crane and de la Houssaye are graduates of Princeton University, although that is not where they met, as they were five years apart, graduating in ’81 and ’86 respectively.

They were introduced to each other when they were both working at White & Case LLP in New York, when Crane was working as a lawyer and de la Houssaye was at Columbia Law School. They met in the summer of 1989 and were married in September 1991. The duo has raised five children who have all conquered worldly, physical feats through encouragement from their parents.

Part of their parenting philosophy includes suggesting each of their kids take a gap year between high school and college to try something challenging for a positive cause.

Their oldest son Cason, 27, climbed the Seven Summits to raise awareness for LGBTQ suicide issues for The Trevor Project. The second son David, 25, biked from northern to southern Africa, more than 7,000 miles, for Conservation International.

Their daughter Bella, 23, hiked the Pacific Crest Trail for refugees. Their third son Oliver, 21, rode solo across the Atlantic Ocean for HomeFront and Oceana.

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Their youngest son Christopher, 18, attends The Lawrenceville School and has yet to decide on his gap year adventure.

On several of their kids’ trips, Crane and de la Houssaye would try to join for parts of their journey. De la Houssaye and her achievements with her children have been captured in articles since her diagnosis, including by the New York Times, Times Insider and even a portion of her bike ride in international news agency AFP. De la Houssaye has participated in an Ironman with all of her children at one point—the last one being with her youngest son in November 2019 in Arizona, when he turned 18.

The age to participate in an Ironman race is 18, so when Christopher had his birthday in October and officially became eligible, he and his mother took on the challenge.

“From a young age, way before I got sick way before any of this, I have tried to do things with them that required discipline, determination and sort of sticking to it,” she said.

Having just gone through radiation treatment in September, this Ironman proved difficult for de la Houssaye.

The radiation to her sternum made the 2.4-mile swim portion of the race troublesome, since the treatment had weakened her upper body muscles and created fatigue. Triathletes are given just about 17 hours to complete the race, and de la Houssaye said she came in close to it, finishing in 16 hours and 40 minutes.

“It was a very, very hard race for me to do but I was worried if I didn’t try to do it then that I wouldn’t be able to do it if I waited,” de la Houssaye said.

The family has another Ironman scheduled for this summer, barring any cancellations due to COVID-19.

Learning through experience,

teaching perseverance and how to get comfortable with discomfort were all critical lessons de la Houssaye wanted to teach her children.

This ideology was something de la Houssaye certainly carried with her through her cross-country ride and even afterwards.

Faced with the dangers of air travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic, de la Houssaye decided to turn her bike north.

Starting on April 25, she biked from Florida to Washington, D.C., arriving May 2, to get as close as possible to her home state, while staying in safe distance from populated areas. She was then picked up by car and taken home to her family in Lawrenceville.

Sunday, May 3 was the first time she had been home since embarking on her journey in early March.

On her ride north, towards the end of this second trip, de la Houssaye began to experience pain that told her she needed to get scanned once home to find out what was going on internally.

Although the pain turned out to be caused by inflammation from her prior radiation treatment to the sternum area, de la Houssaye continues to live every day with her metastasized cancer.

De la Houssaye said that like experiencing the vast distances throughout the country, where she found beauty outside of urban areas, sometimes it takes that absence to highlight the beauty in things.

She said that the years of having lung cancer have been some of the best years of her life. Being aware of the fine line between life and death makes one appreciate every moment of living that much more.

“There isn’t just any one experience,” she said. “Every day had its own beauty to it.”

from the cover The road to the Negro Leagues ran through the Garden State

By Dan Aubrey

It was July 21, 1886, and the Cincinnati Red Stockings had brought their big league talent to Trenton.

Waiting for them at the now longgone Chambersburg Field were the Cuban Giants.

Formed just the year before, the independent Giants were eager to face America’s first professional baseball team and show they belonged. They harbored memories of the 11-3 tromping they received the year before when they met their first major league opponent, the Metropolitans from New York.

But a lesson had been learned.

In place of the misguided confidence that brought them down, the Cuban Giants now had skill and experience— hard-earned during the past year by engaging any minor, town, or college team ready to play ball.

The result was a strong squad with a strong reputation and a strong following. It was also just the right bait to make the Red Stockings want to see for themselves what this team was all about.

And that was fine with the Giants.

Because there in front of a sold-out audience, this team of Black players wanted to show the world this team could play as well as any white major league team.

On that July day, they did just that, beating the Red Stockings, 9-4. The Cuban Giants had become the first Black team to defeat a white major league one. Five days later, the Cuban Giants proved their win wasn’t a fluke, defeating another major league team, the Kansas City Cowboys.

It was just another notch for New Jersey in baseball history and one of the pavers that led to the creation of the Negro Leagues—now celebrating its 100th anniversary. *** The Cuban Giants were born in Babylon, Long Island in 1885, the brainchild of a head waiter at the Argyle Hotel who supposedly wanted to entertain hotel guests.

While the legend says that the head waiter, Frank Thompson, formed the club as a diversion, he also created something with some money-making potential.

Thompson, a seasoned baseball player in his own right, used a winning formula to concoct his team. He searched out hotel staffs for talented players—who also played ball when not working seasonal hotel jobs—and he’d bring in ringers to fill out the team when needed.

And while all the players on the Cuban Giants were Black Americans, the Caribbean island name helped

for the Negro Leagues.

Before then, there was no rule that Black players could not join traditionally white teams. By the mid-1880s, more than a few Black men were playing in the major and minor leagues.

But the conditions weren’t always easy, and those who did play on minor league teams were subjected to verbal and physical abuse on the field and from the stands.

In 1887, before a game between the Chicago White Stockings and Newark Bears, White Stockings manager Cap Anson—a former star and well-known racist—refused to allow his team to play after discovering that the Newark team had two Black players: Fleet Walker and George Stovey.

Newark agreed to sit Walker and On July 21, 1886, the Trenton-based Cuban Giants defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings to become the first Black team to defeat a Stovey in order to placate Anson. Then, major league baseball squad. Five days later, the Cuban Giants proved after the game, team owners met in Jersey City and made a “gentlemen’s their win wasn’t a fluke, defeating the Kansas City Cowboys. agreement” to exclude Black people from the official leagues. An invisible them capitalize on the popularity of another milestone—both in baseball’s color barrier was created that lasted Cuban baseball teams touring the U.S. and our country’s history—took place into the 1940s.

Black players formed their own Being taken for Cuban also helped just miles away, in Newark.

It was there that segregation took teams, and the first of the major Negro the team get better treatment at hotels hold in baseball and created the need and restaurants.

See BASEBALL, Page 8 Accordingly, as Black player-turnedsports writer Sol White notes in his book, “The History of Colored Base Ball,” team members pretended to speak only Spanish or with accents while traveling for games.

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Leagues was born in 1920 when Chicago American Giants owner Andrew “Rube” Foster set up a Kansas City meeting with representatives of other Black teams to establish the league of their own.

In all, there were seven all-Black leagues that competed against each other with one aim: producing baseball equal or greater in quality to the leagues that barred their players.

And while the Negro Leagues’ Golden Era lasted about 30 years—and generally ended when Jackie Robinson put on a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey in 1947—its impact can still be felt in New Jersey.

The Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair will host an exhibition coordinated by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum that honors that impact, as well as the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues formation. “Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball” will show through the end of 2020. *** Most baseball teams in the late 19th and early 20th century played schedules far different from the regimented ones given to Major League and Minor League teams now. Teams would face nearly any challenger, regardless of league affiliation.

This brought many Negro Leagues teams to New Jersey. New Jersey father and son writers Alfred M. and Alfred T. Martin noted in their book, “The Negro Leagues in New Jersey,” that southern

Baseball’s color barrier was born in Jersey City, and later ended there when, in April 1946, Jackie Robinson (left) stepped on the field with the Montreal Royals. Robinson paved the way for many Black baseball players, including another promising minor leaguer: the Trenton Giants’ Willie Mays (right). Mays went on to a Hall-of-Fame career.

teams on their way north, or northern teams heading south, could find strong audiences in the state.

The Garden State had a growing Black population, with the number tripling from 70,000 to about 209,000 between 1910 and 1930. Negro Leagues teams played in such towns as Camden, Hightstown, New Brunswick, Pleasantville, and Princeton, and several New Jersey cities have important

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Atlantic City’s entertainment destination status and sizable Black population made it a natural home for a team.

Though Black baseball teams had been introduced in the resort city around 1910, it was not for sport. Its purpose was designed to attract Black people away from white tourist sites.

In 1915, two Black Atlantic City businessmen decided to establish a Black team and got Mayor Harry Bacharach on board, with the condition the team would help him keep his name in front of Black voters.

When the businessmen failed to persuade the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, Florida, to move north, they contracted its core members and created their own team—the Bacharach Giants— that was soon one member of Foster’s original 1920 league.

Three years later the Bacharach Giants participated in launching the Eastern Colored League and won firstplace pennants in 1926 and 1927.

They left the ECL in 1929 to help establish the American Negro League. But neither the team nor league survived. With the team on shaky financial grounds for years, no businessman stepped up to the plate to launch a new one.

The team’s legacy includes Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Pop Lloyd, who played for and later managed the Bacharach Giants.

Trenton, on the other hand, continued to be the home of the Cuban Giants until 1889 when tensions with new owner J.M. Bright fractured the original team. Subsequent owners created the Cuban X Giants (one of Sol White’s teams) and the Original Cuban Giants. They were all history by 1915.

While Trenton periodically hosted Negro Leagues games, the city had no team of its own. However, Trenton features again in baseball history when, in 1950, the New York Giants assigned to their farm club in Trenton a promising center fielder: future Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

Newark had four Negro Leagues teams. Two lasted only a year, the Newark Stars (1926) and Newark Browns (1932), and one lasted two years, the Newark Dodgers, 1933-35.

Newark Eagles, however, had a good run from 1936 through 1948. In addition to the team winning the Negro League World Series, the Eagles also made history with co-owner and business manager Effa L. Manley. She was the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

While Paterson was a mainly a host city for Negro League games, the city is home of New Jersey’s most tangible artifact of that era, Hinchliffe Stadium.

The deteriorating art deco-styled stadium currently owned by the Paterson Board of Education opened in 1932, seats 10,000, and takes its name from a former Paterson mayor.

Now an official National Historic Landmark and part of the Great Falls National Landmark District, the stadium that hosted the Negro League World Series seemed to win another victory with the announcement this year of a revised plan to save the endangered structure.

The $76.7 million mixed-use project will refurbish the structure, use a portion of the site for senior housing, and include a parking lot and a restaurant featuring exhibits on the stadium and the Negro Leagues.

With state funding, tax credits, and administration support, the preCOVID-19 plan was scheduled to start this summer and be completed by 2022.

And Jersey City was home not only to the infamous “gentlemen’s agreement,” but also its undoing, when on April 18, 1946, the minor league Montreal Royals’ Jackie Robinson walked onto the Roosevelt Stadium field to play against the Jersey City Giants and broke the professional league color barrier. He would do the same at the major league level a year later, in 1947.

While the Robinson event was a key moment in baseball and civil rights history by integrating professional baseball, it also marked the beginning of the end of the Negro Leagues.

The Negro National League disbanded just a year after Robinson first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, while the diminished Negro American League attempted to adapt and change but folded in 1960. The last league remnant, the Harlem Globetrotters-styled Indianapolis Clowns, left the field for good in 1989.Major League Baseball had planned to commemorate the Negro League’s 100th anniversary this season, but despite an agreement between players and owners to restart training camps July 1, it remains to be seen if a MLB game will be played this year. The Yogi Berra Museum’s exhibit waits in the dugout, but may be viewable this month should the state’s plan to reopen museums July 2 go forward.

The good news is, the Paterson stadium is getting attention and being transformed into a memorial to recognize the hundreds of Black men who found opportunity and equality on a baseball diamond.

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New location, new partners for More Than Q

By Joe Emanski

The wait is over.

Mercer County has been waiting— patiently or impatiently—for 8 months for Lambertville’s popular BBQ restaurant, More Than Q, to open a new location in The Square at West Windsor.

More Than Q owner Matt Martin said June 24 that opening day for his new barbecue restaurant would be June 30.

Renovations on the space complete are done, permits are secured, the smokers are in from Texas and tested. New staff have been learning the nuances of Texas-style barbecue, and tables have been set up for outdoor dining.

With limited indoor dining set to start on July 2, the time looks right for Martin and his new partners, John Procaccini and Zissis Pappas of Gretalia Hospitality Group, to open their first joint venture.

BBQ aficionados first noticed the signs announcing the new restaurant in the windows of the former Pei Wei in October. Then, owner Matt Martin was hopeful of a late-2019 or early-2020 opening.

Between the normal uncertainties of opening a new restaurant and the

for since it first opened as a stand at the Stockton Farmers Market in 2014: brisket, smoked sausage, burnt-end baked beans, cheddar cheese grits and more.

“We’re going to be doing all the smoking on premises,” Lambertville pitmaster and Ewing resident Todd “Tod the Mod” Ellis told Community News in October. “We’ll have a pitmaster there and everything will be fresh and made to order, just like we do here (in Lambertville).” *** Chef Ron Spada started More Than Q up at the Stockton Farmers Market in 2014. He was in negotiations to bring on Martin as a partner when he decided to move to North Carolina instead.

Martin bought the business from his friend and took it over. In 2016, he opened a second stand at the farmers market in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Later that year, he opened up his More Than Q is best known for its brisket, but offers everything from first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Lambertville and shut down the pulled pork to wings to mac and cheese to fried pickles.

Stockton stand. Ellis, involved from the start, stayed on as pitmaster in West Windsor’s More Than Q fea- Lambertville, and remains a fixture on coronavirus pandemic, those plans were dashed, and the aficionados have tures the award-winning meats and Klines Court. sides the eatery has become known had to wait a little while longer.

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Fittingly for a Texas-style joint, More Than Q is known best for its brisket. In Texas, smoked brisket is widely considered to be at the top of the BBQ food chain.

But More Than Q’s menu features everything from pulled pork to wings to cornmeal-crusted chicken sandwiches and mac and cheese. Meats can be ordered as sandwiches or by the pound. Sides include collard greens, cornbread, fried pickles and cole slaw.

Ellis says there was a period of adjustment for More Than Q after Gov. Phil Murphy ordered all restaurant dining rooms shut down to arrest the spread of COVID-19. But he says they have done heavy takeout business, and even gained a lot of new customers during the pandemic.

They have also continued with their ongoing expansion project in Lambertville, where they have bought the adjacent Kline’s Court Antiques.

When the project is completed, they will have a larger kitchen and more indoor seating. Martin says he will be happy if the Lambertville expansion is finished by the end of July.

“The whole pandemic thing hit us in the middle of what we’ve been working toward for 7–8 years,” Ellis says. “We’re really excited here in Klines Court.

We’re going to be like a Texas Roadhouse. We have really big plans for this.” *** The new location also represents a new era for Martin in that it is his first time partnering with Gretalia Hospitality Group to manage a restaurant.

Martin has been planning to open a new More Than Q for a while now. But he thought that his next venture would be in the long-stalled Montgomery Promenade on Route 206 in Montgomery. LL Bean and Whole Foods have also been reported as prospective tenants for the proposed upscale shopping center near the Princeton Airport.

In January 2019, Martin opened Taylor Taco Shop in the Easton Farmer’s Market, alongside his BBQ stand there. The new eatery was a success, but left Martin stretched thin.

“The trajectory of the (overall) business has been fantastic, and I was really starting to see where things could go,” Martin says. “But I was running out of bandwidth between the three outlets. (To have) four of these things was going to be a challenge to pull off the way I wanted to. So I was thinking about looking for a partner to help me manage it.”

The day before he opened Taylor Taco Shop, Martin got a call from a representative of Gretalia, the Princeton-based company that manages five PJ’s Pancake Houses, two Osteria Procaccinis and a Trattoria Procaccini in the greater Mercer area. The representative said Gretalia’s partners, John Procaccini and Zissis Pappas, were interested in being partners with Martin on a new More Than Q location.

“I said, ‘It’s interesting that you called, because I have been looking for a partner,’” Martin says.

After meeting with Procaccini and Pappas a few times, Martin agreed to go into business with Gretalia. “They had a bead on this place in West Windsor, and we looked into it and it all worked out,” Martin says. “I certainly could see working with them on more things in the future.”

Like many popular barbecue restaurants, More Than Q often exhausts its supply of proteins before the day ends, especially on weekends when volume is highest. It takes three days to process brisket from butchering to service, and Ellis says even though he smokes 600 pounds of meat per weekend, when that food is gone, it’s gone.

The good news is, he says customers can ensure that they will get what they’re hungry for as long as they put in their orders ahead of time.

“Call any time during the daytime, you’re gold,” he says. “Saturday or Sunday, get that order in early and I guarantee we’ll have it for you. People who wait ’til 4 or 5 might be out of luck. But I always say: ‘Beware of your barbecue places that don’t sell out.’”

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