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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul,” on the fact that although he’s widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can’t get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. (more…)
Reggie Jackson (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
Reggie Jackson (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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On Thursday, June 20, Major League Baseball sponsored an event called “A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Negro players used to vie against other Negro players back before the brave and holy Negro Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. (more…)
Arnold Rothstein (image from The Mob Museum)
Arnold Rothstein (image from The Mob Museum)
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Arnold Rothstein is one of the most prominent figures in the history of organized crime in the United States. Born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1882, Rothstein established himself as the kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York City over the course of the first two decades of the twentieth century. (more…)
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, & Ray Liotta
W. P. Kinsella
Shoeless Joe
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982
The most magical movie of 1989 was the baseball film Field of Dreams, which is based on the 1982 book Shoeless Joe by William Patrick “W. P.” Kinsella (1935-2016). (more…)