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Baseball Remembers: Marvin Williams

Baseball Remembers: Marvin Williams

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Nov 09, 2023
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In April, 1945, a city councilman in Boston named Isadore Muchnick insisted that the Red Sox would lose their city-approved permit to play baseball on Sundays if they didn’t make an effort to sign a Black player. In later years his role would be denigrated, as it was implied that he only did it to curry favor with the voters in his mostly Black district…

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