aclp george nicholson transcript

Justice George Nicholson was born in Dallas, Texas in 1941 and grew up in a large family with his father being a baker. He was taught early right and wrong and spent a lot of time in the fields running barefooted. He was close to all of his aunts and uncles and they all worked and stayed married. He married his wife three months out of high school and they have been married 58 years. He grew up playing baseball with black kids in Oakland and knew the famous George Powles who sent many players to the Major League Baseball, NBA, and Olympics. He learned to love the farm and animals and working people and had a life full of positive experiences with people of different ethnicities. He had to get good grades to be able to play baseball and his parents urged him to do good but did not micromanage his schooling or athletics. He and his friends had aspirations to be professional baseball players and they all said they would not sign unless they all signed. Two of them did sign, Carl Shelen and Jimmy McClure.