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Ballplayer recounts life in the Negro league
Of The Morning CallIn June the 30 teams of Major League Baseball each drafted a Negro Leaguer who never played in the majors. The New York Mets added to their honorary roster Bob Scott, a pitcher-first baseman for the New York Black Yankees and the Memphis Red Sox. It...Tags: Sandwiches, Racism, Willie McCovey, Boston Red Sox, George Sisler
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Connie Marrero, a Cuban treasure
bcassidy@newsday.comConnie Marrero once struck out Mickey Mantle three times in one game. Not bad for someone who learned how to pitch by throwing oranges on a farm in Cuba. As with most of his stories, the Mantle anecdote is punctuated by Marrero's dry sense of humor. This...Tags: Martin Dihigo, House and Home, Satchel Paige, Mickey Mantle, Boston Red Sox
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Jackie Robinson can't sub for Barry Bonds
ZEV CHAFETS is the author of "A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance."April 15, by decree of Major League Baseball, will be Jackie Robinson Day. On Sunday, a player on each big league team will be designated to wear Robinson's uniform number, 42. The Dodgers, Robinson's club in its Brooklyn incarnation, intend to go one...Tags: San Francisco Giants, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Boston Red Sox, Mickey Mantle
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Year-by-year inductees
(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Phil Niekro, George Weiss, Bob Feller, Joe Sewell, Rube Foster
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Shadow Series
bcassidy@newsday.comJose Mendez wasn't concerned with pitching on short rest. Although he had already made three relief appearances, this was the final game of the World Series and his team needed an arm it could trust. As player-coach, Mendez declared himself the starter....Tags: Society, Walter Johnson, Leon Day, Willie Mays, Bob Gibson
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First Black Team a Big Hit
Staff WriterBabylon's Argyle Hotel was a white elephant. It was built too late; the area's booming resort-hotel era was coming to an end near the turn of the century. It was built too big; its 350 rooms and 14 cottages never were more than one-third occupied....Tags: Society, Employees, Bodies of Water, Railway Transportation, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Opening act
Sun StaffThe day the Orioles arrived in Baltimore, trolleys clanged down cobbled streets. Kids rushed to see Pinocchio at the Hippodrome. Banana boats dumped their bushels onto weathered wharves where the Inner Harbor now stands. On April 15, 1954, Baltimore...Tags: Defense, NBC, Music Theater, New York Times, Boston Red Sox
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The quiet pioneer
Sun StaffHe was a tiny left-handed pitcher whose major league career was composed of two appearances, one in Chicago and the other in Baltimore. Most of his baseball life unfolded in the game's fringes, on minor league diamonds from Canada to Cuba. Yet Jehosie...Tags: Defense, Basketball, Willie Mays, U.S. Cellular Field, Bill Veeck
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Excerpts from Eddie Murray's speech
Sun StaffExcerpts from Eddie Murray's speech at Cooperstown: A nice, little sea of black and orange out there. It's a wonderful thing. I'm thankful to be here today. It's a dream, one of the few things I never dreamed. The game, I knew I was going to do. It's a...Tags: Contracts, Jackie Robinson, Mike Flanagan, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken
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'I feel unbelievable. I've definitely been blessed.'
Excerpts from Eddie Murray's speech yesterday at Cooperstown: A nice, little sea of black and orange out there. It's a wonderful thing. I'm thankful to be here today. It's a dream, one of the few things I never dreamed. The game, I knew I was going to...Tags: Contracts, Jackie Robinson, Mike Flanagan, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken
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A look back: Sox hire Manuel
Tribune staff reporterWhile the White Sox revise the road map they hope one day will lead them to the World Series, they at least will be led by someone who knows the way. Ending one of major-league baseball's longest manhunts, the Sox on Thursday signed Florida Marlins bench...Tags: Wages and Pensions, Scott Eyre, Tampa Bay Rays, U.S. Cellular Field, Public Employees
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How Wendell Smith helped Robinson's cause
Tribune staff reporterIt began in March, 1945. Wendell Smith telephoned Isadore Muchnick, a Boston councilman who was campaigning for re-election in a predominantly black area. Smith was a young sports writer with the Pittsburgh Courier, the nation's largest African-...Tags: Atlanta Braves, Basketball, Contracts, Ohio State Buckeyes, Roy Campanella
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