For younger readers especially: Judge Landis was Baseball’s first Commissioner, holding office from 1920 until his death in ...
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Why was a baseball field named after an African-American ballplayer in a time of intense racial tension? In 1949 America was a very different place. Racial segregation is widespread, and in ...
WLRN Public Television’s latest one-hour documentary Never Drop the Ball takes audiences on an extraordinary journey to show how black baseball ... of baseball out of segregation into a ...
Major League Baseball adding statistics from the Negro ... hid his Mexican American heritage from the public amid MLB ...
Why was a baseball field named after an African-American ballplayer in a time of intense racial tension? In 1949 America was a very different place. Racial segregation is widespread, and in ...