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Baseball Teams Up With Castro



Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers general manager who signed Jackie Robinson to break baseball’s color barrier, said “ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.”

More than 70 years after Robinson debuted at Ebbets Field, Major League Baseball has cut a deal with the Cuban military dictatorship in which Havana will allow Cubans to play in the U.S. In exchange baseball will garnish their salaries and send the money to the regime. No other…



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