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Ron LeFlore. Ronald LeFlore (born June 16, 1948) is an American former Major League Baseball center fielder. He played six seasons with the Detroit Tigers before being traded to the Montreal Expos. LeFlore retired with the Chicago White Sox in 1982.
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- A Man Named Moses
- Force Play
- Erin Go Bragh
- A Football Stance
- Against The Current
- Sweeping For Silver
- Ol’ Man River
- The Bates Seven
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Finally Open
On Aug. 10, 1883, Cap Anson, the owner-manager-first baseman of the Chicago White Sox, took his team to Toledo, Ohio, to play an exhibition game. He demanded that the Blue Stockings not play Moses Fleetwood Walker, the African-American catcher. Walker wasn’t going to play anyway because he was injured, but when informed of Anson’s demand, Toledo ma...
John Montgomery Ward is the only player in the Hall of Fame with 2,000 hits and 100 wins. He also later started a major department chain. But his impact on the business of baseball was huge as well. In the late 1880s, players bridled at the salaries they were being paid under the National League’s reserve clause. Led by Ward, they organized a new l...
Peter O’Connor, an Irish long jumper, finished second in the 1906 Games in Athens but first in the history of Olympic flag protests. He had gone to Greece believing he was representing Ireland, but when he got there, he was told there would be no Irish team, just one from Great Britain. So as the Union Jack was raised for him, he scaled the flagpol...
Long before he became a famous actor, singer and firebrand, Paul Robeson was a student trying out for the Rutgers football team. He made the team after enduring a brutal initiation rite in intrasquad scrimmages, but there was still the matter of what other teams might do when faced with a 6-foot-2, 210-pound black man on the other side. For its Oct...
On Aug. 6, 1926, 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. It took her 14 hours, 34 minutesand a change of coaches — the first one actually tried to sabotage her initial effort. In a decade in which female athletes emerged to challenge stereotypes, Ederle’s feat was the signal accomplishment. Legend has it that...
The 1936 Berlin Games forced American athletes to decide how best to object to Adolf Hitler’s Aryan agenda. Harvard track star Milton Green, fencer Albert Wolff of France and basketball players from Long Island University chose not to participate in protest of the virulent anti-Semitism in Germany. On the other hand, track stars Jesse Owens and Mac...
Twenty years after teaching the West Virginia football team a lesson, Robeson gave mainstream America a more profound one by singing “Ol’ Man River” in the movie Show Boat. The music was by Jerome Kern, the lyrics were by Oscar Hammerstein II and the film was directed by James Whale, but it’s the performance by Robeson that still strikes the chord ...
The University of Missouri asked that New York University not use African-American fullback Leonard Bates in a November 1940 football game, and NYU acceded to the request. After NYU players brought the matter up at a student council meeting, seven students decided to protest the university’s complicity in discrimination against black athletes … and...
Some might argue that the Brooklyn Dodgers’ decision to integrate baseball wasn’t a protest. But in retrospect, this act of courage by Jackie Robinson and of defiance by general manager Branch Rickey may have been the single most successful demonstration for racial equality in American history. Robinson had to walk through a cauldron of hatred to s...
No African-American had ever competed in the US Open, but Florida A&M’s Althea Gibson was clearly worthy of an invitation. As the tennis world waited to see if the country club set at the United States Lawn Tennis Association would extend one, four-time national champion Alice Marble weighed in with a letter that appeared in the July 1950 issue of ...
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Dec 19, 2020 · March 12: Major League Baseball suspends spring training indefinitely because of COVID-19 concerns. March 12: The NFL suspends its 2019-20 season indefinitely; NHL and Major League Soccer...
Feb 15, 2018 · In 1999 when he was in Detroit for the final game at Tiger Stadium, he was arrested after he festivities thanks to an open warrant stemming from unpaid child support payments.
Player page for Ron Burns [1982-1983] with MLB, Minor, College and summer league baseball stats along with biography, draft info, salary,transactions,awards and more!
Mar 26, 2018 · As the star witness in baseball’s “trial of the century”—the criminal conspiracy case against the fixers of the 1919 World Series—Sleepy Bill Burns was asked whether he was out for revenge in testifying against his former partners, the eight Chicago players involved in the Black Sox Scandal.
