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‘Just wanted to play baseball’: New exhibit celebrates the men who integrated the sport
It tells the Negro Leagues’ history, introduces Black and Latino players who went on to integrate baseball and pays special ...
10 Baseball Bats That Sold for More Than Most Cars
A chunk of wood could outprice a Ferrari—wild, right? When it’s the very bat Babe Ruth used to blast balls into the Bronx sky ...
US Naval Academy canceled author’s lecture that would have criticized book bans
The US Naval Academy canceled a lecture that author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to give to students there last week after he refused to remove slides from his planned presentation that criticized the ...
Manchester Journal3d
Sunderland students breathe life into their own wax museum
Celebrities and sports stars filled the first and second grade classroom at the Sunderland Elementary School (SES). Babe Ruth ...
The American Spectator5d
Jackie Robinson Was No DEI Hire
April 15th was Tax Day, but it was also Jackie Robinson Day. In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager and President Branch Rickey hired Robinson to be the first black major league player ...
Austin American-Statesman3d
Reds' Hunter Greene discusses 'beautiful things' that came from Jackie Robinson
From Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona's perspective, Jackie Robinson Day isn't necessarily a day of celebration, and that's no slight against the Civl Rights icon. Speaking Tuesday in his ...
The Post-Star6d
April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day around Major League Baseball
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the ...