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Civil Rights Icon Hank Aaron: A Tough Out, On and Off the Field
His legacy is a lesson to all of us when faced with the bitter fruit of discrimination, hate and intolerance: Be your own “tough out.”
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After 75 Years, Jackie Robinson Still Shows Us We Can Do Better, In Spite of Ourselves
On April 15, 1947—75 years ago this week—a Black man stepped onto a major league baseball diamond and into history.
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The Courage to Speak Up
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke, 18th-century Irish statesman and philosopher I read this article a little while back about Yankees great Derek Jeter taking a stand against bullying and hate speech.
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Tim Tebow’s Religion, America’s Favorite Pastime
What’s the saying? “It’s as American as baseball and apple pie?” Football gets a lot of the love these days but whenever I go to a live baseball game—anything from little league to major league—I always feel like I’m part of something special, something quintessentially American.
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Overcoming Discrimination—the ’69 World Series and Hurricanes Today
In the late summer and fall of 1969 there was a great deal of hostility and discrimination between the Black and White communities in New York City. The general level of communication was resentful or antagonistic among strangers from each.
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The Gates of Major League Baseball Swing Open for Orthodox Jews
Jacob Steinmetz made history two years ago as the first Orthodox Jew ever drafted by a major league ballclub.
