Charles Albert Bender: National Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher masculinity full of teasing and admonitions

full of teasing and admonitions

and Hannah

As a young Indigenous man grappling with the lasting effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma

who took on the bullies taunting her “mixed-blood” brothers and sisters

Charles Albert Bender: National Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher masculinity full of teasing and admonitionsCharles Albert Bender was a World Series winning pitcher and the first Minnesotan picked to join the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He grew up poor on a farm and lived far away from his home and family while attending an Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania. From always working hard to inventing the slider, learn all about the life of Bender.