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Story behind first segregated professional baseball team and its ties to South Florida
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoIn 1946, one year before Jackie Robinson's debut, Branch Rickey hired Fred and Ray Dobens to run the...
3 movies that filmed at Birmingham's historic Rickwood Field
Birmingham News· 2 days agoThe giants of the game -- from Satchel Paige to Willie Mays to Reggie Jackson -- played ball at...
Willie Mays, baseball’s electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93
New York Times· 2 days agoWillie Mays opened his big-league career with a confidence-rattling 0-for-12 stretch before finally...
Dodgers notes: Shohei Ohtani’s swing, Walter O’Malley archive in Hall of Fame
True Blue LA· 6 days agoA closer look at a specific aspect of Shohei Ohtani’s swing. Plus an extensive archive of former...
Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93
New York Times· 2 days agoWillie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the...
Let the record show that Major League Baseball now truly recognizes Negro leagues stars such as Josh...
The Boston Globe· 6 days agoUntil late last month, before recent years of number crunching, Ty Cobb topped the charts with his...
The complicated legacy of Birmingham’s white baseball legends: Dixie Walker
Birmingham News· 3 days agoAs part of Major League Baseball’s upcoming event at Rickwood Field, AL.com and The Birmingham News...
Willie Mays obituary: SF Giants legend known as the “Say Hey Kid” dies at age 93
San Jose Mercury News· 2 days agoWillie Mays, the incandescent Giants outfielder and a symbol of baseball’s golden age, died Tuesday....
Yankees allow Red Sox to steal the night away as AL East lead over Orioles tightens
The Bergen Record via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoTheir catcher that day was none other than Branch Rickey, who’d reach the Hall of Fame as an...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 3 days agoWhen Jackie Robinson was the first Black baseball player to break the color barrier and play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Dodgers executive Branch Rickey< ...
