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Article: The Next Best Thing // Epic `Baseball' Pinch-Hits for Pennant Races
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 15, 1994
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Baseball
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A PBS miniseries on WTTW-Channel 11. Part 1: 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday.
Parts 2-5: 8 p.m. Monday through Sept. 22. Parts 6-9: 8 p.m. Sept.
25-28.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Part 6 of "Baseball" notes Jackie Robinson's breakthrough as the
first black major league player. With him in 1947 are Brooklyn
Dodgers teammates John Jorgensen (from left), Peewee Reese and Ed
Stanky.
As an often heartbroken White Sox fan since 1957, I still love
baseball - despite the flaws that threaten to ruin the professional
sport.
For those of us who still care about the game after the
major-league players and team owners spat in our faces this summer,
it's somewhat ...