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fromCentral Current
1 week ago
New York Yankees

Sean Kirst: Eighty years after Jackie Robinson's minor league heroics, a spotlight on his courage and pain in Syracuse

fromDodger Blue
4 months ago
LA Dodgers

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

New York Yankees
fromCentral Current
1 week ago

Sean Kirst: Eighty years after Jackie Robinson's minor league heroics, a spotlight on his courage and pain in Syracuse

Syracuse's current baseball team, the Mets, directly descends from the Montreal Royals who signed Jackie Robinson in 1946, making the city integral to breaking baseball's color barrier.
fromDodger Blue
4 months ago
LA Dodgers

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

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fromDefector
5 months 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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