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Jackie Robinson wasn't the first African American Major League
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World Series highlights the dwindling of Black players in
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Little League baseball faces declining participation
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Commentary: MLB Should Do More to Attract Blacks to Baseball and
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Opinion: As goes baseball, so goes America - Georgia Recorder
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Trailblazers: Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers in Baseball
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Why MLB is losing Black America - Sports Illustrated
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Summer of '49 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics): Halberstam
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Why are there so few Black American players in MLB 74 years after
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Why isn't baseball as popular amongst black people today as it was
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Baseball - Expansion, Integration, Steroids
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Column: Remembering Jackie Robinson in town where it started
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