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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
Original set of Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers contracts caught in legal dispute
ESPN· 3 days agoJust inside the entrance to the 19,380-square-foot Jackie Robinson Museum in lower Manhattan, a...
Bill Swank: San Diego's Walter McCoy was a living link to Negro Leagues, baseball history
U-T San Diego· 6 hours agoObscure and unforgettable would both describe stoic San Diegan Walter McCoy. For added hometown...
Jayla's journey: For this Southern Guilford grad, it did take a village — her older siblings
Greensboro News & Record· 16 hours agoJayla Logan tries not to notice other girls with their mothers, but it happens. As ceremonies run...
Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB
The Hill· 3 days agoNo sport has a closer relationship with statistics than baseball. For decades major league owners...
The fight over Jackie Robinson
Washington Post· 3 days agoRachel Robinson couldn’t give her blessing at first. At that point, it had been nearly 50 years since her husband, Jackie Robinson, died ...
Jackie Calmes: Which is it? Biden the mastermind or Biden the bungler?
Greensboro News & Record· 12 hours agoNews flash: Republicans haven’t said it in so many words, but they seem to have a new line of attack against President Joe Biden: He suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Biden has multiple ...
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Deadspin· 18 hours agoJackie Robinson wasn’t the only Black baseball player to suit up in the big leagues in 1947. After he broke the color line and became the first Black baseball ...
Leyland's No. 10 to be retired by Tigers Aug. 3
ESPN· 4 days agoJim Leyland's No. 10 will be retired by the Detroit Tigers during a ceremony on Aug. 3. The team announced the honor Monday, the 10th number retired by...
Why context, truth most important in MLB's integration of Negro League stats | Press Box Wag
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoOften left out of the tale were such details as Rickey’s sizable economic incentive for being the...