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23 04, 2012

Catcher’s Tears Were a Likely Inspiration for Rickey – New York Times

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The Montreal Royals, the top minor league team in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, broke baseball’s color line on Oct. 23, 1945, by signing shortstop Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro leagues. The Associated Press reported that the Dodgers’ president, Branch Rickey, said he had given a lot of thought to discrimination

23 04, 2012

Column: Robinson deserves more than one day- USA TODAY

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Sunday is Jackie Robinson Day in major league ballparks, where the ballplayer and his legacy will be remembered with tributes and testimonials. All big-league players will wear Robinson's number 42 on their backs, the only number in sports retired in perpetuity. Chris Lamb is a professor of communication at the College of Charleston and the

9 04, 2012

Racist past haunts Florida town where Trayvon died – Chicago Tribune

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It was 1946 and Robinson arrived in this picturesque town in central Florida for spring training with a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team. He didn't stay long. Robinson was forced to leave Sanford twice, according to Chris Lamb, a professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, who wrote a graphic account of Robinson's brush

9 04, 2012

Email Threats Like Those at Pitt called Virtually Impossible to Trace – Pittsburgh Post

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"There's no cookie-cutter approach to how you respond to a bomb threat," said Paul V. Verrecchia, chief of police for the College of Charleston in South Carolina and president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. "You've got to go with your gut instinct and experience."