George Lombard Jr., the New York Yankees' top prospect and author of the franchise's latest magical moment in a long line of them, famously comes born-and-bred from a baseball family. But dig a bit deeper, and the Lombard family's history becomes just as intertwined with the American struggle as it does with America's pasttime. How Posy Lombard ended up with a 300-page FBI filePosy Lombard, the caucasian daughter of a Harvard dean, was arrested on multiple occasions, according to reporting by The Athletic, in the deep south during a time when long-held societal fractures created fragile circumstances. George Lombard Jr. just debuted at shortstop for the Yankees, the youngest since Jeter. Posy Lombard, who died a single mother of three children, came face to face with a wide range of America's unfathomables at a time not nearly as distant as we like to pretend it was.