You may have heard that recently Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a resolution officially honoring Jackie Robinson and apologizing for the treatment he received here back in 1947, the year he integrated Major League Baseball. I personally found it “interesting” that the apology came from City Council and not from the Phillies, whom Robinson’s biography […]

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