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...slim, swift outfielder out of Kasugai, Japan, was chosen Most Valuable Player in the American League by the Baseball Writers' Association of America?an overwhelmingly white, male group of U. S. journalists. During the 2001 season, Suzuki batted .350, garnered 242 hits, stole 56 bases and played a fine right field, showing about as good an outfield throwing arm as now exists. Newspaper accounts were busy with statistics and with reporting Suzuki's close run for the prize against Jason Giambi, a mighty power hitter who lumbered about for the Oakland Athletics. The larger point may sound simplistic. Suzuki...
...past greats, gazing mildly from bronze plaques mounted on the walls. Gathered there are the greatest ball players ever: Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Koufax and Mathewson. The effect is stirring; unfortunately, U.S. baseball's racist past has been underplayed. It is as if we were reading a fine authorized biography, solid in many respects but edited by the subject, in this case Major League Baseball...
...next 63 years. Branch Rickey, the most eloquent of baseball men, brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Rickey and the Dodgers' captain, Pee Wee Reese, lent magnificent support to Robinson, the pioneer. Others did not. Several Dodgers demanded to be traded, rather than play on a fine team beside a black...
...Racists are comfortable with nasty stereotypes. Blacks can't think. Latins are flashy but fold under pressure. Until this season the stereotype for Japanese players suggested that they could make fine minor leaguers but the power and muscle of the American big leagues would overwhelm them...
...political and cultural changes in Afghanistan. A 2nd century marble head representing Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepalese prince who after years of futile asceticism sat down and found enlightenment, looks like a Mongol warrior, with moustache and wild curly hair. In most other sculptures in the exhibition the Buddha has fine, often-feminine looks...