Word: coleman
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Leonard S. Coleman, Jr., a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education, was unanimously elected president of the National League last Tuesday...
...Coleman, who has worked as a missionary in Africa, as a member of the New Jersey state government and as a finance banker for Kidder, Peabody & Co., served as the head of major league baseball's marketing staff for the last two years...
...Finance is great, politics is great, but there is only one baseball," Coleman said...
...Coleman, 45, replaced former league president Bill White as the highest ranking Black official in American professional sports. White was scheduled to leave office last April, but agreed to stay on until crises in baseball management were resolved...
...Coleman said baseball's racial history has been a mixed one. He said the years of segregation in baseball before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1948 demonstrated blatant racism, but noted that Robinson began playing seven years before Brown v. Board of Education and 16 years before the Civil Rights...