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Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1934) is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the ''Billboard magazine|Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts. He was one of the few African-American country musicians to have considerable success in the largely white country music industry.
Early life and career
Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi|Sledge, Mississippi, one of eleven children of poor sharecroppers. His father named him "Charl Frank Pride", but because of a typing error on his birth certificate, he was legally born as Charley Frank Pride.<ref name="CMHOF">[http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/inductees.aspx?cid=158# Country Music Hall of Fame]</ref> In his early teens, Pride began to play the guitar.
Though he also loved music, one of Pride's life-long dreams was to become a professional baseball player. In 1952, he Pitcher (baseball)|pitched for the Memphis Red Sox of the Negro American League. He pitched well, and, in 1953, he signed a contract with the Boise, Idaho|Boise Yankees, the Class C farm team of the New York Yankees. During that season, an injury caused him to lose the "mustard" on his fastball, and he was sent down to the Yankees' Class D team in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Later on that season, while back in the Negro Leagues with the Louisville, Kentucky|Louisv... read all
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