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Some guys can just hold an audience. In baseball, no matter the score, fans have never left the park until Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Willie Mays or Junior Griffey has had his last turn at-bat. And at Wrigley Field, even if the Cubs trailed by 10, no one ever...
So I played baseball until dusk, and then I read. I read before dinner, after dinner, even during dinner if my sister and I were feuding. (The pages of certain volumes from my childhood are maroon with catsup stains.) When I was especially tired or restless, I reread, with the...
DIED. PIPER DAVIS, 79, the first African-American baseball player to sign with the Boston Red Sox, only to be dropped from the roster because of prejudice, not poor hitting; in Birmingham, Ala. In the 1940s he was a star slugger and infielder in the Negro leagues. As manager of...
Robinson's act, coming seven years before the Supreme Court struck down "separate but equal," anticipated the coming of the civil rights movement and had an impact on his team, his sport, his race and, most importantly, his country. He opened the door for Willie Mays, Ken Griffey, Jr. and...
Things got a little better in the later going, but my back-turned-to-the-opponents, Willie Mays-style over-the-back return seemed to always land on the other side only after bouncing off the wall of the MAC.