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Baseball needs to figure out what it wants the game to be
On the field, we certainly will remember the action; the Los Angeles Dodgers — always dominant yet curiously, at the worst possible moments, just human enough to lose — were finally champions of a season that began bitterly in the wake of the Houston Astros cheating scandal and with commissioner Rob Manfred calling the World […]
Continue readingThe exile of Oakland A’s Bruce Maxwell and the birth of MLB’s Black player movement
To find Bruce Maxwell’s America, you first have to leave it, as he did, by crossing over into another country, into an exile both self-imposed and voluntary. It is to journey 165 miles southwest of the U.S. border at Laredo, Texas, into the Mexican city of Monclova, and look back at the most important intersection […]
Continue readingDavis homers in 12th as Athletics top Orioles 2-0
View photosOakland Athletics’ Khris Davis is mobbed by teammates after hitting the game-winning home run off Baltimore Orioles’ Pedro Araujo during the 12th inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)MoreKhris Davis took a ”pitchers’ ballgame” into his own hands.” OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Khris Davis took a […]
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