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Before Jackie Robinson, Jorge Pasquel broke baseball's color barrier — in Mexico
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMexican baseball league president Jorge Pasquel, right, introduces catcher Mickey Owen, left, to...
An ode to perhaps the greatest Jewish baseball player on Passover
CNN via Yahoo Sports· 2 months agoToday is the first full day of what was my favorite Jewish celebratory holiday as a kid: Passover,...
Granddaughter of Negro League baseball great 'stunned' by stats merger with MLB
ABC News· 4 weeks agoFrom the 1920s to the '50s, Negro League Baseball (NLB) was the home for Black players who were...
Miguel Cabrera's biggest games: 5 days defined him in first 6 seasons as a Detroit Tiger
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoIt wasn’t quite on the level of his walk-off homer as a 20-year-old in his MLB debut with the...
Killed in Action: The story of NFL players who gave their lives in service to their country
The Providence Journal via Yahoo Sports· 2 months agoWriting last week’s column about the Patriots' Joe Cardona aroused my curiosity about other NFL...
Remembering the day Jackie Robinson played in Raleigh, breaking the city’s race barrier
Durham Herald-Sun via Yahoo Sports· 1 week agoIn 1950, Raleigh’s humble baseball park with its rickety bleachers and patchy infield grass hosted...
The Supreme Court May Overturn the Error That Made Major League Baseball Rich
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOne of the strangest things in the Supreme Court’s history is the antitrust exemption for Major...
From baseball to island life: Robert Onorato, one of Hilton Head’s pioneer developers, dies
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRobert Onorato, a renowned Hilton Head Island developer and resident of over 40 years who was...
Oller: List of best major league baseball players from Columbus short but sweet
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo Sports· 11 months agoFor being a former cow town, Columbus surprisingly has not produced multitudes of marquee athletes...
At 88, fastballs are flying at him, and this slugger is swinging for the fences
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBenny Wasserman, 88, a former aerospace engineer and Albert Einstein impersonator, eyes a pitch in...