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minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months ago@YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @RuthODay @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield Today’s #1947League game brought to you by @YakyuNightOwl and the one, the only, Frankie Knuckles – the godfather of #HouseMusic! #Music #NowPlaying #BlackHistoryMonth https://youtu.be/QIdimVDuSEU?si=X1pJkb8psbNi5Yid
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months ago@YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @RuthODay @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield #Baseball #trivia question for all reading this, not just the people tagged here. One guess only. Make it count! Complete the sentence: “Larry Doby, Jackie Robinson, and Roberto Clemente are the only baseball players to …” #1947League #BlackHistoryMonth
minus-squareRuth O’Day@chaosfem.twlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months ago@YusufToropov @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield … to have been listed in this question by Yusuf. After that, I got nuthin’. Edited for an actual idea in this. “…break a color line.” Jackie broke the NL color line, Doby broke the AL color line, so I wonder if Clemente did something similar. ::hopes for a wide strike zone::
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months ago@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield Ok, looks like I stumped the room. Larry Doby, Jackie Robinson, and Roberto Clemente are the only #baseball players to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/larry-doby-congressional-gold-medal/ #,1947League #BlackHistoryMonth
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months ago@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months ago@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson) Doby’s was arguably the more challenging path, given his youth and Veeck’s “sudden immersion” approach to integrating the AL.
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months ago@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson) Veeck had not thought through some basic questions, among them: What’s the support network? What position will this guy play?
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months ago@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson) “Nobody said, 'We’re gonna be nice to the second Black. '”
minus-squareYusuf Toropov@toot.communityOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months ago@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield "More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson) “You know why I hit so well in Washington and St. Louis?”
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Today’s #1947League game brought to you by @YakyuNightOwl and the one, the only, Frankie Knuckles – the godfather of #HouseMusic!
#Music #NowPlaying #BlackHistoryMonth
https://youtu.be/QIdimVDuSEU?si=X1pJkb8psbNi5Yid
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#Baseball #trivia question for all reading this, not just the people tagged here.
One guess only.
Make it count!
Complete the sentence: “Larry Doby, Jackie Robinson, and Roberto Clemente are the only baseball players to …”
#1947League #BlackHistoryMonth
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… to have been listed in this question by Yusuf.After that, I got nuthin’.Edited for an actual idea in this.
“…break a color line.”
Jackie broke the NL color line, Doby broke the AL color line, so I wonder if Clemente did something similar.
::hopes for a wide strike zone::
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Ok, looks like I stumped the room.
Larry Doby, Jackie Robinson, and Roberto Clemente are the only #baseball players to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/larry-doby-congressional-gold-medal/
#,1947League #BlackHistoryMonth
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More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield
More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson)
Doby’s was arguably the more challenging path, given his youth and Veeck’s “sudden immersion” approach to integrating the AL.
@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield
More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson)
Veeck had not thought through some basic questions, among them: What’s the support network? What position will this guy play?
@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield
More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson)
“Nobody said, 'We’re gonna be nice to the second Black. '”
@RuthODay @YakyuNightOwl @tabletopmania @simoncarswell @Jaden3 @cbtryon @sendtherunners @aurelia @AlisonW_RedSox @BigEarl @baseball @OhhJim @sullybaseball @APBAreplay @AlexanderRaine7 @mattmaison @Eilistraee @blackvoices @ted_duffield
"More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Clemente, Robinson)
“You know why I hit so well in Washington and St. Louis?”