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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.


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GEORGE SOROS Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports ar...
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DOUG WHITE Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
JIM SENSENBRENNER There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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JOE DIMAGGIO I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is...
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