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LA Dodgers
fromDodger Blue
1 week ago

This Day In Dodgers History: Jackie Robinson Signed, Mike Piazza Voted Rookie Of The Year & World Series Record

The Los Angeles Dodgers pioneered baseball integration by signing Jackie Robinson and Johnny Wright in 1945; Robinson broke MLB's color barrier and excelled.
Major League Baseball
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1 month ago

Hank Thompson Lived A Wild, Tragic, Forgotten Life In Baseball | Defector

Hank Thompson was a complex, pioneering African-American baseball player whose talent, troubled life, and controversial behavior complicate sanitized heroic narratives.
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