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Why doesn’t the Phillies roster look like Philadelphia? | Capital-Star Letters

BY: - August 27, 2022

In a city with a majority minority population, shouldn’t they be trying to harder to reflect their hometown?

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Jackie Robinson addresses civil rights supporters protesting outside the 1964 GOP National Convention. Ted Streshinsky/Corbis via Getty Images

Jackie Robinson was a radical. Don’t listen to the sanitized version of history | Opinion

BY: - April 18, 2022

He challenged banks for discriminating against Black neighborhoods and condemned slumlords who preyed on Black families.

Hall of Famer Josh Gibson’s record-breaking home run to be memorialized in Monessen

BY: - July 22, 2021

Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson died before Major League Baseball broke the color barrier. He's finally getting his due from his home state.

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So now Republicans are trying to cancel Coke and Major League Baseball | Dick Polman

BY: - April 12, 2021

Are they going to do now – agree to hike taxes on corporations, as punishment for “woke” free speech?

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The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline | Opinion

BY: - March 26, 2019

Some of the best players in the world come from this small Caribbean nation, where an entire system of training young talent has blossomed. But few actually make it to the big leagues.