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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy tells the fascinating story of this transformation, how Blacks broke down the doors of the exclusive club that was major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: More Than Just a Game | 9/23/1983 | See Source »

"Here," McMurray begins to boast, just as his listener begins to feel this will not be McMurray's last stay, "you got the air. You got exercise, weights. You got baseball." Down the way is a diamond lined with rotting bleachers brought from Ebbets Field after the Dodgers moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Last Stop for the Poor | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Canada's baseball heritage is deeper than 15 years of the Expos and seven seasons of the Blue Jays. Before Brooklyn or Los Angeles ever knew of Walter Alston, he managed the Dodgers Triple A team in Montreal, and Jackie Robinson played there in 1946. "Those were happy summers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swinging at Snowballs | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

Chicago, a city not overrun with heroes, is embracing a new candidate, a long-ball hitter named Ronald Dale Kittle, who has been stunning the American League. He is close to homegrown, coming from 25 miles away in Gary, Ind., where his father is an ironworker. After failing with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broad-Shouldered, Like Chicago | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

Labor Leader Marvin Miller has retired. Fewer cranky voices have been heard this spring, but there is no less talk of money. In recognition of cutting a billion-dollar deal with television, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn has been mentioned as a possible successor to Bowie Kuhn. The new diet fad, "weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spray Hitting in the Spring | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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