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Play Ball, Jackie

By Steve Hochstadt

Murray Polner: Review of Edward Achorn's "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey" (PublicAffairs, 2013)

SOURCE: Special to HNN (5-3-13)

How Accurate is "42"?

By Ron Briley

5-1-13

Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad."

Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?

SOURCE: TheRoot (4-08-13)

At 97, the oldest living Brooklyn Dodger reflects

SOURCE: NYT (4-4-13)

Fan whose 1949 shooting of ballplayer inspired “The Natural” dies after years in obscurity

SOURCE: WaPo (3-17-13)

Team M.V.P. (Most Valuable Preserver): Historians Are Fans’ Link to Past

SOURCE: NYT (3-6-13)

At memorial, former players urge Marvin Miller be put in baseball Hall of Fame

SOURCE: AP (1-21-13)

Baseball's Hall of Fame Hypocrisy

By Ron Briley

1-14-13

Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad."

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