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Progressive Politics Played a Big Part in Integrating Baseball

Christopher Lamb | Posted 04.15.2012

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Christopher Lamb

Major league baseball will honor Robinson today, as it does every year, with Jackie Robinson Day. Today players will all wear Robinson's 42, which is the only number in baseball retired in perpetuity.

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Jimmy Breslin's 143-page Biography Of Branch Rickey Is Much More Than A Great Book About Baseball

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.17.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

On the morning before John F. Kennedy's funeral, Jimmy Breslin went up to Arlington National Cemetary and watched Clifton Pollard dig the president's ...

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Robert Redford Playing A Legend In New Movie

Posted 06.07.2011

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Robert Redford is set to make baseball history, and he won't need Wonderboy to do it. The acting legend told The Los Angeles Times that his long-pl...

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Why Sotomayor Couldn't Really Save Baseball

Michael Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shapiro

In 1995, Cal Ripkin did not save baseball, and nor, for that matter, did Sonia Sotomayor. They both helped the game, mightily. But salvation remains elusive.

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Break Up The Royals; Damn (the) Yankees

Michael Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shapiro

The rise of the Royals suggests that baseball is indeed a game in which every team has a shot at a pennant, and not just the rich ones. There is some truth in this, but it is very recently so.

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Ebbets Field, Redux

Michael Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shapiro

Last night, in an arena where Shea's name fittingly joins the retired numbers of Seaver, Stengel, Hodges and Jackie Robinson, baseball witnessed a return to the past. We're back where we started.

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With Thanks To Those Who Brought Us Here

Rick Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Siegel

Thanks to President-elect Obama not just for leading this nonviolent coup of everyday Americans overthrowing a military industrial junta, but for recognizing that the work has just begun.

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Obama and Jackie Robinson

Michael Dowd | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Dowd

Watching Barack Obama on the stump and particularly in the debates reminds me of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

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