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Martin Luther King Jr. and baseball

January 15, 2016

Here’s a link to a previous post I did about the late Dr. King. He was also part of this unique collection of Topps Heritage American Heroes issued in 2009.  

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Baseball and Dr. King

January 19, 2015

Didn’t want the day to go by without a mention of Martin Luther King Jr. and his baseball connections. Here’s a piece I posted on the last MLK Day. One from two years ago by The Baseball Sociologist. And another from 2008 by the popular and thoughtful Dave Zirin on King and Roberto Clemente in […]

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s baseball connections

January 15, 2012

Small wonder in that they had to do with Jackie Robinson. Robinson’s teammate, Don Newcombe, recalled ameeting between the two iconic figures for a piece in Time Magazine in 2007: Do you know what Jackie’s impact was? Well, let Martin Luther King tell you. In 1968, Martin had dinner in my house with my family. […]

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