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Word: rasslin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liaisons. In an infamous 1978 speech, former Senators Owner and lifelong Baseball Man Calvin Griffith told Minnesotans that he moved the team from Washington "when I found out you only had 15,000 blacks here. Black people don't go to ball games, but they'll fill up a rasslin' ring and put up such a chant, it'll scare you to death." Baseball ought to be scared to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Racism At Bat | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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