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On April 16, 1945, the Boston Red Sox reluctantly held a Major League tryout for Black ballplayers in the Negro Baseball League that many regarded as some of the best players in the world, but the team refused to sign any of them due to “an unwritten rule at that time against hiring Black players.”…

Jackie Robinson’s Legacy Vanishes, Then Reappears, on Pentagon Site

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