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The racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration
Washington Post via Yahoo Sports· 8 months agoOn a midsummer day at Chicago's Comiskey Park in 1938, a WGN Radio reporter asked an innocuous question to New York Yankees outfielder Jake Powell in a pregame interview: What did he do in the ...
25-50-100 Years Ago -- May 12
The Frederick News-Post, Md. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 12—100 Years Ago May 12, 1923 Throughout the nation tomorrow will be observed as "Mother's Day." Special services will be held in many of the churches and special reference will be made ...
Mike Pence's misguided fantasy of baseball history
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 11 months agoHow the 48th vice president of the United States - or, the "oleaginous Mike Pence," as George Will once called him, "with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness" - graduated ...
Conservatives fight with ‘woke’ history leads to a nation of imbecilic citizens | Opinion
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 1 year agoWhile teaching American history survey courses at Fresno State, I handed out questionnaires on the...
A look at some previous lifetime bans from professional team sports leagues
Associated Press via Yahoo Sports· 4 weeks agoToronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter isn't the first person to receive a lifetime ban from a...
Loran Smith: Georgia Sports Hall of Fame inductee embodies the spirit of March Madness
Athens Banner-Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhile he was a successful coach, there was more in his motivational wheelhouse than wins and...
Loran Smith: Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron and reflecting on America's pastime
Athens Banner-Herald via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoThe original Yankee Stadium, “the House that Ruth built,” was constructed one hundred years for the...
Senators seeking answers from MLB on paltry pay for minor leaguers like Yard Goats
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOver the last few years, Major League Baseball has taken control of the minor leagues, eliminating...
Babe Ruth's granddaughter comes to Batter Up Baseball Camp
The Day, New London, Conn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 9—EAST LYME — To suggest that her disposition and humor are Ruthian would be obvious. It requires all of five seconds to see that Linda Ruth Tosetti does affable and whimsical by habit, ...
Sports gambling creates a windfall, but raises questions of integrity – here are three lessons from...
The Conversation via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoSports betting is having a big moment across the United States. While gambling on sports has been legal for decades in countries such as the U.K., it wasn’t until 2018 that the U.S. Supreme ...
