Why wasn't Jimmy Yancey a full-time musician?
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With his eye on a career in baseball's Negro Leagues, Yancey played for several years with a Chicago team called the All-Americans. ...he settled for a steady baseball paycheck beginning in 1925, as a groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox.
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