baseball
S.F. Giants demand food service workers sign COVID ‘release of liability’ form
April 13, 2021The San Francisco Giants Opening Day was Friday, April 9. The Giants had been doing a full court press (sorry to mix in basketball metaphors) for days on end about how safe the stadium would be...
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MLB pulls All-Star game from Georgia over new voter suppression law
April 6, 2021The long, pandemic-filled winter months capping off the surreal year of 2021 are settling in behind us. Spring is in the air. And with it comes our favorite national pastime: Baseball.
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Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book
December 18, 2020This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.
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Baseball rewrites history, says Negro Leagues now a major league
December 17, 2020“It is MLB’s view that the Committee’s 1969 omission of the Negro Leagues from consideration was clearly an error that demands today’s designation,” the league said in a statement.
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Minor League baseball players get a SCOTUS win; voting rights a loss
October 6, 2020It makes sense that absolutely nothing makes sense.
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