Ted Williams, Satchel Paige and the fight to induct Negro Leaguers into baseball’s Hall of

Ted Williams, Satchel Paige and the fight to induct Negro Leaguers into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Sixty years ago, the famed Red Sox slugger used his Cooperstown speech to champion Black players who were excluded because of the sport’s color barrierWhen Ted Williams, the last man to hit .400, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he had an iconic career to reflect on.

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Trechos de apoio da pauta: Sixty years ago, the famed Red Sox slugger used his Cooperstown speech to champion Black players who were excluded because of the sport’s color barrierWhen Ted Williams, the last man to hit .400, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he had an iconic career to reflect on. But he decided to dedicate a portion of his speech to championing Black players who had been excluded because of baseball’s longtime color barrier.“I’ve always been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, to have struck out or to hit a tape-measure home run,” Williams said in his 25 July 1966 speech – 60 years ago Saturday.

• Ponto de atenção: williams.
• Ponto de atenção: satchel.
• Ponto de atenção: paige.

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