baseball
Baseball’s Larry Doby: #2 but first-class all the way home
April 17, 2018Ask even the most casual baseball fan who the first African American to play in the major leagues was and they'll say "Jackie Robinson." Ask them who the second was and you'll probably get a blank...
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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...
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Baseball players union files grievance against four MLB teams
March 1, 2018Can you smell it? Spring is in the air. Well, spring training that is.
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Cleveland 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.
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Resistance 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.
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