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Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947
April 16, 2018"The cheers for Robinson are saying something, something that will make it easier for Negro players to come, for the day when there’ll be no special pressure upon an American ballplayer whose skin happens to be...
Read moreBaseball players union files grievance against four MLB teams
March 1, 2018Can you smell it? Spring is in the air. Well, spring training that is.
Read moreCleveland Indians ball club to remove racist logo in 2019
January 29, 2018Chief Wahoo, the cartoonish caricature of a Native American, debuted on the Indians’ uniforms in 1948.
Read moreResistance and baseball: As American as apple pie
April 19, 2017Baseball, as a national sport, is culturally diverse, beautiful, and enriched by immigrants; just like the U.S. Let’s keep it that way.
Read moreGo Cubs go! Six complaints about the World Series win
November 3, 2016Maybe this World Series could set off a series of other curse-breaking, starting with the curse of hate ideologies, poverty and violence.
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