Daring Play: How a Courageous Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball

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Jackie Robinson: Athletes Who Made a Difference

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Double Play

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Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham

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Baseball History

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Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future

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Mad Dog!: Detroit Tiger Dick McAuliffe

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The Questionable Legacy of O.J. Simpson

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A Negro League Scrapbook

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Joe DiMaggio: American Hero

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Impact Player: Leaving a Lasting Legacy On and Off the Field

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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game

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The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers

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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age

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From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA

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The Show: The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived It

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Growing Baseball

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Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game

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Boxers: Champions Forever: Ali, Frazier, Louis, And Robinson

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King of Pop: The Story of Michael Jackson

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42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

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A Complete History of the Rugby World Cup: In Pursuit of Bill

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Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson

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America's Favorite Pastime: The History of Baseball

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The Boys of Summer: The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since

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Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting

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Michael Jackson: Biography of the Most Famous Singer of All Time

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Memories from the Microphone: A Century of Baseball Broadcasting

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The Story of Boston Celtics: Into The Green

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Moses Fleetwood Walker: The Life and Legacy of the Last Black Man to Play Major League Baseball Before Jackie Robinson

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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

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Making Bombs for Hitler: A Novel

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These Happy Golden Years

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Little House on the Prairie

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By the Shores of Silver Lake

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1)

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Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator

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Little House in the Big Woods

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On the Banks of Plum Creek

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Little Town on the Prairie

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Anne of Green Gables

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The First Four Years

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Resist: A Story of D-Day

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The Long Winter

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The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1)

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Allies

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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

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One False Note (The 39 Clues, Book 2)

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Iceberg

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The Day the World Went Nuclear: Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific

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Farmer Boy

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By the Great Horn Spoon!

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

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Refugee

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A Night Divided

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Inside Out & Back Again

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Edge of Anarchy: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

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Ground Zero

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The Wednesday Wars

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A Place to Hang the Moon

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How Do You Live?

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Kostya Kennedy, "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson"

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Fried Egg Stories, Episode 9: Jackie Robinson the Golfer: In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first Black man to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century. You're probably familiar with that story. What you may not know is that the baseball diamond was not the only playing field where Robinson advocated fo...

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Brooks Robinson

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Interview with Pacers star Bob Netolicky: What was life like in the ABA? (Basketball Mysteries of the 1970s #3)

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Rick Barry: One of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History - AIR046

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Basketball Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens | "I Played Stickball with Willie Mays": Lenny Wilkens scored 17,772 points as an NBA player, and won 1,332 regular season games as an NBA coach. He has two gold medals, and he's in the Basketball Hall of Fame three times. And still, he reminds you... his first love was baseball. Hear the story of young Lenny Wilkens watching Jackie Robinson's rookie season from the Ebbets Field bleachers in 1947, and the firsthand accounts of how he changed America. Hear Lenny's accounts of playing stickball with Willie Mays, and what roles the first wave of Black stars in the Major Leagues had in the community. The Civil Rights movement, the Dream Team, the incredible stories of a 45-year Hall of Fame career and the man who lived it - all with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick.

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Best of - Bill Russell: Giant of a Man: When the NBA playoffs come around each year, it's always worth revisiting the story of Bill Russell. Russell was the force behind the most astonishing winning streak in the history of sports. His team, the Boston Celtics, won eleven NBA championships between 1957 and 1969, eight of those in a row. Russell changed the game of basketball, with his incredible speed, and his ability to block shots as no player had done before. When he took over as coach of the Celtics (while still playing on the team), he became the first African-American coach in the NBA. In this episode, Russell talks about his life in basketball, and he describes how the racism he confronted on and off the court, shaped him as a player, and led him to become a civil rights activist. This episode was originally published in April of 2017.

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Ramone Russell | Bringing the Negro Leagues to MLB: The Show 23: Imagine, stepping into the shoes of Satchel Paige to face Josh Gibson in the 1942 Negro Leagues World Series. With the bases loaded. And with every fielder on your side kneeling around the pitcher's mound. Starting this week, you can. Bob Kendrick sits down with Sony's Ramone Russell to tell the story of how the two of them have brought the Negro Leagues to life in this year's edition of MLB: The Show, and why it's already bringing baseball history, and American history, to a new generation like never before. Hear how the stadiums, the crowds, the uniforms, the windups, the swings, the slides, and most importantly, the stories were all recreated in living color, and how it all amounts to the most exciting year in the history of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

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S1E6: The Summer of '95

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The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history

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#215 SHOOTING hoops, a life with legends!: Guest Andrew D. Bernstein is a legend in American sports photography, involved in the creation of NBA Photos in 1986, responsible for helping archive the history of professional basketball. His photos have featured on thousands of magazine covers plus...

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Bill Russell: Giant of a Man: The most astonishing winning streak in the history of sports, belonged to the Boston Celtics. They won eleven championships between 1957 and 1969, eight of those in a row. And the player at the center of those wins - was Bill Russell. He changed the game of basketball, with his incredible speed, and his ability to block shots as no player had done before. When he took over as coach of the Celtics (while still playing on the team), he became the first African-American coach of any major sport in the U.S. In this episode, Russell talks about his life in basketball, and he describes how he was shaped by the racism he confronted, on and off the court.

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On the road with the superstars of Negro League baseball, 100 years on: “Baseball history needs to be looked at again. The statistics dont make sense unless you understand the story that went behind those numbers.” – Phil S. Dixon In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Phil talk about the racial integration of Major League

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2-time World Series champion pitcher Jason Grimsley on addiction, pain, hope, redemption and God's grace: Jason Grimsley is a former professional baseball pitcher who played 17 years in Major League Baseball with seven different teams. He was originally selected in the 10th round of the 1985 MLB Draft by the Phillies and made his MLB debut four years...

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Sir Bobby Robson: Sue Lawley's castaway is football manager Sir Bobby Robson

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Sir Bobby Robson: Sue Lawley's castaway is football manager Sir Bobby Robson

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11: John Seiler – The Flying Yank (1921-1983): John J. Seiler, "The Flying Yank" was a famous ultrarunner in the 1920s and 1930s. He thrilled fans with his stunts such as racing against cars in cities.

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Ep. 11: Bill York

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Best of - Bill Russell: Giant of a Man: The most astonishing winning streak in the history of sports, belonged to the Boston Celtics. They won eleven championships between 1957 and 1969, eight of those in a row. And the player at the center of those wins - was Bill Russell, who died this week at the age of 88. Russell changed the game of basketball, with his incredible speed, and his ability to block shots as no player had done before. When he took over as coach of the Celtics (while still playing on the team), he became the first African-American coach of any major sport in the U.S. In this episode, which first ran in 2017, Russell talks about his life in basketball, and he describes how he was shaped by the racism he confronted, on and off the court.

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BONUS | Sridhar Pappu and Luke Epplin | A Salute to the Black Aces: Bob Kendrick joins fans at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's "Black Aces" exhibit for an in-depth discussion with two acclaimed authors. Sridhar Pappu discusses his book, "The Year of the Pitcher", chronicling Bob Gibson's historic 1968 season, set "against the backdrop of assassinations, while boys boarded planes to Saigon and riots swept through American cities, forever changing the fabric of this country." Then Luke Epplin sits down for a conversation about his book, "Our Team", "the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields

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Bobby Richardson (New York Yankees)

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NBA Finals Game 7s: 1952, 1960 and 1974

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Jackie Robinson Day and One Boston Day: This is always a really emotional week for baseball fans.

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Can Athletes Ever Be Movie Stars?: What happens when athletes decide to act? And what doesn’t happen? Wesley Morris and Bill Simmons, sportswriter and founder of The Ringer, break down the history of athletes in movies. They start with Jackie Robinson playing himself in 1950, discuss the Blaxpoitation-era stars and make their way to the ’90s, from “He Got Game” (where Ray Allen turns in a solid performance opposite Denzel Washington, directed by Spike Lee) to “Space Jam” (the less said, the better). They trace this phenomenon all the way to Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, arguably the most successful athlete-turned-actor of all time — who seems to be playing the long game. Then, they imagine a new kind of renaissance for the sports movie.

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Where does 1973 fit in the Knicks’ mythology? (Basketball Mysteries of the 1970s #18)

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Ruth Beckford and Careth Reid, “The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E. F. Joseph” (Arcadia, 2017): From 1927 until his death in 1979, E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in the Bay Area. His images were printed in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender, but not widely published in his home community.

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What Was Bill Russell’s Impact? @realbillrussell

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Ruth Beckford and Careth Reid, “The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E. F. Joseph” (Arcadia, 2017): From 1927 until his death in 1979, E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in the Bay Area. His images were printed in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender, but not widely published in his home community.

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Ruth Beckford and Careth Reid, “The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E. F. Joseph” (Arcadia, 2017): From 1927 until his death in 1979, E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in the Bay Area. His images were printed in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender, but not widely published in his home community.

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Jose Loiola's legend only continues to grow: To read through the old LA Times archives, to dig through all of the gushing, flattering pieces, is to remember Jose Loiola as a man of near mythical proportions, a beach volleyball Paul Bunyan. How hard he could hit! How high he could jump! How ente...