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A full list of the players, coaches and owners permanently banned by Major League Baseball

Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other players permanently banned by the sport would have their statuses restored at death

The Independent UK

Sports history’s biggest flubs and blunders

The Boston Red Sox sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees may have been the biggest one-time blunder. But perhaps no sports misadventure was worse than baseball’s continuing malevolent scheme to keep the big leagues segregated.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump Wouldn't Be the First Non-Confederate Barred From Office by the 14th Amendment

The weird story of Victor Berger, the Espionage Act, and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.

Reason

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How baseball endured through World War II

History sometimes forgets that Pearl Harbor also triggered one of the most significant letters in presidential history: the Green Light Letter in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged baseball owners to keep playing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bradenton, the Pirates' Florida hub, has been defined by a century of baseball

When what was formerly known as Bradenton's City Park opened in 1923, Major League Baseball's commissioner at the time, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, arrived for pregame festivities on a biplane piloted by a Manatee County official.

Tribune News Service

Baseball quiz: Has the quizmaster lost touch with reality?

I want to include you in the quiz. Send me a date, or just a year, and I will try to craft a quiz question around it. I will credit you in the quiz with your first name and last initial.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB’s Art Shires: hitter, peacock, boaster, boxer and accused killer

The Texan was a hothead who beat up his own manager, pursued an off-season fighting career and was implicated in the deaths of two people

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When will a woman pitch in Major League Baseball? It might be sooner than you think.

The bases were loaded with two outs in the ninth inning when Nelson Figueroa, pitching coach for the Staten Island FerryHawks, waved to the bullpen for a reliever. A right-hander answered with a nod, jogged to the mound and four pitches later was out of the jam, getting the batter…

Los Angeles Times

SI:AM | One of the Most Heartwarming Walk-Offs You’ll Ever See

Jose Trevino capped an emotional day with a big game-winning hit.

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