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...game wasn't a sellout. It lured 25,623 fans, more than half of them black, to the 32,000-seat Ebbets Field. What those present saw was a piece of history in nine innings: a black man played in a major league game for the first time. Of course, Jackie Robinson didn't break the color line in baseball all by himself. He needed Branch Rickey to do it. The president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the one with the will and the power to upend the idiotic myopia of the sport's other sachems. (Were...
...Duluth also has the advantage of being the tournament host. Just under 5,000 fans attended the semifinal match, and a sellout is expected for the championship. The Crimson is unfazed...
...game of two evenly matched teams that truly showcased women’s college hockey at its highest level in front of a record sellout crowd of 5,167. The score remained 3-3 through the third period and first overtime. Though the Crimson outshot Duluth 44-41 overall and 16-13 during the extra periods, it was the Bulldogs who generated the better chances during overtime, forcing Ruddock to play her absolute best...
...game with two factors working against it. The first was the flu symptoms that struck the team this week—which one day forced almost 10 players out of practice and kept junior defenseman Kenny Smith out of the Dartmouth game—and the second the near-sellout crowd at Thompson Arena in Hanover that helped breathe life into the Big Green in the second period...
...jumped all over a stunned Harvard squad in the game’s first minutes to open up a 3-0 lead, then withstood a furious rally by the No. 15 Crimson to prevail 4-3 in front of a raucous sellout crowd at the Bright Hockey Center Saturday night...