![]() ![]() Cory comes home enraged after finding out that Troy told the football coach that Cory may not play in the team. Bono and Troy remember their fathers and their childhood experiences of leaving home in the south and moving to the north. Troy refuses and demands Cory to get his job back Troy wins his case and is assigned as the first colored garbage truck driver in the city. Cory begs Troy to let him play because a coach from North Carolina is coming all the way to Pittsburg to see Cory play. Cory breaks the news to troy that he has given away his job at the local grocery store, the A&P, during the football season. Rose reminds Troy about the fence she's asked him to finish building. Lyons shows up at the house because he knows it is Troy's payday. Troy goes into a long epic story about his struggle in July of 1943 with death. ![]() Troy was in the Negro Leagues but never got a chance to play in the Major Leagues because he got too old to playjust as the Major Leagues began accepting black players. Troy and Rose's son, Cory has been recruited by a college football team. Bono thinks Troy is cheating on his wife, Rose. Troy has asked Mr Rand, their boss, why the black employees aren't allowed to drive the garbage trucks, only to lift the garbage. Troy and Bono go to Troy's house for their weekly ritual of drinking and talking. The play begins on a Friday, Troy and Bono's payday. ![]()
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