baseball
Speedy organizing drive brings minor-league baseball players into union fold
September 8, 2022It took only one week to bring 90 percent of Little League players into the labor movement.
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Gay baseball star Glenn Burke: What could have been, except for…
June 17, 2022Andrew Maraniss’s superb biography, Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke, gives a full and insightful account of the life of the first openly gay professional baseball player.
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Baseball—and baseball books—are back!
May 24, 2022Now that what used to be called “Our National Pastime” is back, it’s time to look at several recently published books about the game.
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Baseball and socialism in Cuba: Despite some defections, a success story
April 7, 2022With all its mistakes, bureaucracy, and inefficiency, Cuba has still created a socialist sports system that works for the vast majority of baseball players and fans throughout the island, not the wealthy few.
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L.A.’s Dodger Stadium should not exist!
April 1, 2022“The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles...
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