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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 9 hours ago • 467 comments

Cedric Mullins has mental fortitude. Cedric Mullins doesn't let vibes get him down. The boys had BETTER be treating Cedric Mullins with the respect he deserves and could do a lot worse than trying to learn from him about handling rough patches. #ExtendCedricMullins

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Non-exhaustive, non-ordered Bluesky list of Brandon Hyde replacements 1) Buck Britton 2) Robinson Chirinos 3) Jose Mourinho 4) Jim Harbaugh 5) Rex Barney 6) Sean Dyche 7) Sam Allardyce 8) The Savannah Bananas 9) Mike Tomlin 10) Upton Sinclair 11) Buck Showalter being a gm is easy

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

Re: Hyde discourse because if this has to haunt me, it has to haunt you too

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

My last Jackie Robinson trivia of the day. MiLB and Negro League data may be incomplete, but from the look of things, Jackie spent his rookie year as the Dodgers' everyday first baseman *DESPITE HAVING PLAYED A TOTAL OF ONE PROFESSIONAL GAME AT FIRST BASE BEFORE.* No pressure! #JackieRobinsonDay

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

If you’re feeling the call to buy Jackie Robinson gear to show your love and appreciation for the man who broke the color barrier in modern Major League Baseball, I implore you to skip Fanatics/MLB and buy directly from the @jackierobinsonfdtn.bsky.social Museum at shop42.org.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

2 local rec's to celebrate black baseball history: Hubert V. Simmons Museum of Negro Leagues- www.smnlbinc.org Owings Mills (right by metro stop) Ethnicitees LLC- Sean Ramon Montague is an artist using relief block printing. He sells some beautiful Leon Day shirts. www.ethniciteesllc.org/shop

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s important to remember the Jackie Robinson was not the first black player in the major leagues. There were professional baseball players until the 1910s. Robinson was the first black player to play after decades of explicit segregation.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

It's actually wild. There's literally no mention of why Jackie Robinson is important in the MLB press release. At all. Just that he "played his first Major League game on April 15, 1947."

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Did you know that when Jackie Robinson retired after the 1956 season, three MLB teams still had not integrated? The Phillies, Tigers and Red Sox did not integrate until 1957, '58, and '59, respectively. April 15 1947 was the beginning, not the end, of racial reconciliation in MLB. #JackieRobinsonDay

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Looking for something to read? “Only the Ball Was White” by Robert Peterson. It tells the stories of many wrongly excluded and outstanding ball players most people have never heard of, to this day. Originally published in 1970 and sadly still relevant today.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

if they're not going to acknowledge the basic facts of racism in baseball on jackie robinson day they need to let me onto the field in camden yards at their earliest convenience. somebody needs to chase akin around with a shovel

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

when i was a kid i saw this letter at the baseball hall of fame and it changed me forever. i couldn't wrap my head around this level of hatred. Jackie Robinson's struggle was more than just hateful comments and jeers -- he was risking his life just by stepping on the field. we owe him so much

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

On this day in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

This always drove me nuts when I taught math too. You're not doing the problems for ME, I don't really care what the solution to that deq is. You're doing the problems to practice thinking about them!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

I'll miss watching baseball today, but MLB has shown that they're not working to actually honor Robinson. I'm going to join in on this boycott today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment