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HISTORICAL FACTS: Branch rickey - Caught on Camera

The forgotten story of the US soldiers who integrated baseball before Jackie Robinson

Alongside a Jewish, anti-racist pitcher from Brooklyn, Leon Day and Willard Brown played in a remarkable team during a historic wartime tournament

The Guardian - US

Sports history’s biggest flubs and blunders

The Boston Red Sox sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees may have been the biggest one-time blunder. But perhaps no sports misadventure was worse than baseball’s continuing malevolent scheme to keep the big leagues segregated.

Chicago Sun-Times

How the Mets’ Collapse Compares to Other Busts in MLB History

Teams going from 100-win seasons to posting a losing record the following year are rare.

Sports Illustrated

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Inspirational Negro Leagues documentary recalls greats who endured hardship but played with passion

Interviews, photos and newsreel clips inform ‘The League,’ which stands with the best chronicles of baseball integration.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s All-Star ‘game of the century’

The 1933 contest featured such players as Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Gabby Hartnett, Carl Hubbell and Lou Gehrig, but no black players.

Chicago Sun-Times

New Hampshire town recognized for historic role in racially integrating baseball in the 1940s

A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping racially integrate baseball

The Independent UK

Pirates star Dick Groat, who also played in NBA, dies at 92

A wiry shortstop with a slick glove and a lightning-quick guard with a lethal set shot, Groat was a star on the baseball diamond and the basketball court in the 1950s.

Chicago Sun-Times

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SI:AM | Can the Knicks Keep Their Streak Going?

No team in the NBA is hotter right now than the Knicks.

Sports Illustrated

Bill Shaikin: 'That was absolutely deliberate.' Focus at Jackie Robinson Museum is off the field.

NEW YORK — There was a time, and not so long ago, when you could ask a major league player about Jackie Robinson and get a shrug in return. The league retired his number in 1997, on the 50th anniversary of his debut, with President Clinton in attendance. That made…

Los Angeles Times

Paul Sullivan: A teachable moment — and the true meaning of Jackie Robinson’s legacy to Black baseball players

Jackie Robinson was in headlines this weekend when New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson referred to Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson as “Jackie” during Saturday’s game, igniting a brouhaha between the two teams.

Chicago Tribune

Jackie Robinson was a radical

Robinson was an activist and rebel long before he broke baseball's color line

Salon

The Complicated Legacy of Jackie Robinson Day

MLB’s integration decimated the Negro Leagues and left many Black players, coaches and executives with nowhere to go.

Sports Illustrated

Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the 'white man’s party'

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever changing baseball and society.

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