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Article: CAMPANIS REVISITED THE EX-DODGER EXECUTIVE DESERVES SECOND CHANCE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 16, 1989
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TEMPE, Ariz. - He was on the outside looking in, perched in the
scouts' section for a recent Seattle Mariners exhibition game. Two
years after delivering the infamous "message" that will forever be
regarded as an inadvertent turning point in baseball minority
hiring practices, Al Campanis was a spectator.
He was far removed from his time of crisis -- the furor
Campanis created on ABC's "Nightline" when he said, among other
things, that blacks lacked the "necessities" to become managers and
occupy decision-making front office positions. The resulting uproar
not only cost Campanis his job as vice president of player
personnel with the Los Angeles Dodgers, it also ushered in a new ...