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Taking Stock of Shohei Ohtani’s Best Comps at Age 32

The career of baseball’s two-way superstar resembles the combined output of two very different Hall of Famers.

Sports Illustrated

Ranking the 25 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Major League Baseball's best through the years.

Sports Illustrated

40 Things Pilots, Flight Attendants And Airport Workers Know About Air Travel That Passengers Don’t

What secrets are crews hiding?

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Athletics Entering Uncertain Era After Unceremonious Exit From Oakland

The A’s will call a Triple A stadium home for the next few years. What lies ahead in West Sacramento could have a domino effect on MLB’s future.

Sports Illustrated

Jackson Merrill Is the National League Rookie of the Year So Far

Paul Skenes is getting the headlines, but Merrill is having the better season.

Sports Illustrated

Brooks Robinson Appreciation: In Maryland in the 1960s, nobody was like No. 5

Growing up in Maryland in the 1960s, Brooks Robinson was a god

The Independent UK

5 reminders that Brooks Robinson was one of the best third basemen of all-time

Brooks Robinson was a Baltimore Orioles legend and one of the best third basemen ever.

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Bill Plaschke: Arte Moreno and the Angels would never trade Ohtani to the Dodgers? Why not?

LOS ANGELES — Amid the reams of confusing talk about the possibility of the Angels trading Shohei Ohtani, one disturbing narrative has emerged.

Los Angeles Times

Shohei Ohtani Has Already Put an End to the AL MVP Race

The Angels star’s prolific start to the season solidifies his place as one of the most impressive two-way players in the history of the sport.

Sports Illustrated

Team USA Is So Money, It’s ‘Ridiculous’

Take a good look at the Americans’ WBC roster, folks. There has never been a team like this, at least not by net worth.

Sports Illustrated

Baseball quiz: Remember what happened after Jackie

Robinson was revered for breaking the color barrier, but don’t forget about those who followed.

Chicago Sun-Times

Texas leads in Pro Football Hall of Famers, but how does state compare in other sports?

DALLAS — No state has more native-born players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame than the state of Texas. Zach Thomas’ recent election will add to the number of Texans enshrined in Canton, Ohio.

Tribune News Service

Frank J. Robinson’s Ghost Haunts East Texas

This civil rights leader’s death led to probes by state and national agencies. But documents that might have proven he was murdered have vanished.

Texas Observer

Preview: The Ghost of Frank J. Robinson

Presented in partnership with Texas Public Radio, an investigation of the death of an iconic civil rights leader, ruled a suicide by police.

Texas Observer

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The Independent UK

No Black players expected in World Series, a 1st since 1950

No U.S.-born Black players are projected to be on World Series rosters when the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros meet this week

Nottingham Post

The Nottinghamian: Arnold town centre set to 'thrive' and Notts singer impresses judges

Take a look at today's Nottinghamian newsletter

Chicago Sun-Times

Celtics and NBA legend Bill Russell dies at 88

Russell marched with Martin Luther King Jr., supported Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The centerpiece of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years, Russell earned his last two NBA titles as a player-coach — the first…

The Hindu

Bill Russell, NBA great and Celtics legend, passes away at 88

The NBA great Bill Russell has died at age 88

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Nick Canepa: Passion missing these days from baseball's All-Star Game

SAN DIEGO — During my halcyon days, when I gorged on so much halcyon my mom had to remove it from the larder, I loved baseball's All-Star Game.

Salon

Jackie Robinson was a radical

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

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Sudden-death OT, Beards and Handshakes

Here’s what you need to know about the NHL playoffs.

Nottingham Post

When top Nottingham busker Xylophone Man used to lift our spirits

Happy musician really struck a chord with shoppers back in the day

Sports Illustrated

NYC’s 42nd and Broadway Renamed ‘Jackie Robinson Way’

The city commemorated his breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier in a big way.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson' digs deeper into amazing life

SAN DIEGO — Jackie Robinson Day will be celebrated throughout Major League Baseball on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Conversation

Jackie Robinson was a radical – don't listen to the sanitized version of history

In our new book, “Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America,” Rob Elias and I profile the many iconoclasts, dissenters and mavericks who defied baseball’s and society’s establishment.

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