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Rachel Robinson
It is easy to imagine that at the end of her final day of filming…
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Dorothy Arnold
Sometime after World War II, Woody Guthrie wrote a song called…
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Ethel Posey
Ownership in the Negro Leagues was a tough and sometimes precarious…
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Eleanor Gehrig
No one chooses to become a professional widow, and Eleanor Gehrig…
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Jean Yawkey
When Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey died in 1976, he left…
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The Brush Family Women
Beset by a chronic illness and often in pain, John T. Brush was…
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Aldona Appleton
In one of his baseball abstracts, Bill James relates an amusing…
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Pete Appleton
In September 1927, the Cincinnati Reds brought up a 23-year old…
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Tom Yawkey
As the owner of the Boston Red Sox for 43 years, few if any people…
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John T. Brush
A sufferer from locomotor ataxia, a painful disease of the nervous…
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Lou Gehrig
On July 4, 1939, between games of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium,…
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Roy and Bessie Largent
There have been many famous husband-wife teams who shared a career,…