baseball
Dodgers’ pitcher arrested for allegations of domestic assault
May 15, 2019Another baseball season, another case of domestic violence taking place.
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For Puerto Rico: Red Sox Manager and several players to skip White House reception
May 9, 2019Championship winning sports teams visiting the White House is a time-honored tradition dating back to Aug. 30, 1865, when then-President Andrew Jonson first hosted the Brooklyn Atlantics and Washington National amateur baseball clubs. Ulysses S. Grant...
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Jackie Robinson integrates baseball: Daily Worker archives 1947
April 15, 2019"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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Trump administration ends MLB/Cuba baseball deal
April 9, 2019The Trump administration is moving to end a deal allowing Cuban baseball players to sign contracts directly with Major League Baseball organizations.
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Remembering Don Newcombe and the fight against Jim Crow baseball
February 22, 2019In memory of Don Newcombe, People’s World’s reprints a feature story on him and Roy Campanella from a 1946 edition of the Daily Worker.
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