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In this area no lesson is too basic, as recent events proclaim loudly. Commemorating the 40 years since Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Al Campanis has remarked on how buoyant and fit for command blacks aren't, and he has been fired. Baseball Commissioner...
In a television show last week meant to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the breaking of baseball's color line, an honored executive with Jackie Robinson's old team unwittingly let the country look inside him, and inside the game, to see plainly that the line still exists. Los Angeles...
Though appalled, Koppel offered Campanis several shovels for digging himself out, but he just kept piling on the dirt. "Why are black men, or black people, not good swimmers? Because they don't have the buoyancy." Within 24 hours Campanis apologized, but within 48 he was fired by the Dodgers...
The way people are now saying "The Dodgers, of all teams," the Dodger players are saying "The Chief, of all people." Campanis had a reputation for fairness: he once traded his son to the Athletics. And the Latin players, in particular, have regarded him as a patron. Pedro Guerrero murmured...
10. Steve Sax (Los Angeles Dodgers), .332