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To: nickcarraway
I've been a serious baseball fan for 50 years. I've heard him called “racist”, but not the worst.

Cap Anson, who started the color barrier is more notorious. Enos Slaughter (who spike Jackie Robinson in the Achilles tendon @ 1B , a cowardly move) was much reviled.

10 posted on 05/31/2015 3:03:26 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Enos Slaughter (who spike Jackie Robinson in the Achilles tendon @ 1B , a cowardly move) was much reviled.

Slaughter (later) claimed that he wasn't one of the Cardinals involved in the aborted Robinson strike, denied spiking Robinson on purpose, and denied being a racist.

Who knows.

But he was tough to get along with by everybody.

13 posted on 05/31/2015 3:26:59 PM PDT by FreeReign
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