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Lifelong Frog
TCU slugger came to play in College World Series. He rediscovered his Native roots.
By Michael Kelly
Omaha is the mecca for college baseball, a proud local history dating to 1950. But this year’s College World Series, without fanfare, featured a more distant history – a star player directly descended from Big Elk, the last full-blooded chief of the Omaha tribe.
The player, Cole Fontenelle of TCU, carries a prominent Omaha name:
Fontenelle Forest. Fontenelle Boulevard. Fontenelle Park. At least two schools named Fontenelle, as well as some businesses. The once-prominent Hotel Fontenelle in downtown Omaha is gone, as is the old Logan Fontenelle public housing project.
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