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NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball

9th - 10th
Audio story offers a discussion of a book on baseball legend Jackie Robinson and how he became "a ballplayer with the guts not to fight back."
Audio
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: The Boston Red Sox and Racism

9th - 10th
Audio story profiles the Boston Red Sox, last major league team to integrate their roster. At the time of this story (2002) they were under new management and making an attempt to overcome "an undeniable legacy of racial intolerance."