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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 …”
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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/
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More on #1947League hero Larry Doby, one of only three #baseball players to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Doby’s was arguably the more challenging path, given his youth and Veeck’s “sudden immersion” approach to integrating the AL.
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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?
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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. '”
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“You know why I hit so well in Washington and St. Louis?”
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“I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. | continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If | was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck, Jim Hegan, and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.”-Larry Doby