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Breaking Baseball's Racial Disparity


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When we watch baseball today, it’s hard to imagine teams being segregated by race. But there was a time when Atlanta had separate teams for white and black players. The history of integration in professional baseball is storied, and it began long before Jackie Robinson . We talked with Atlanta playwright Kerwin Sims, who wrote a play about that history How far have we come in making baseball more inclusive? According to one study, African Americans are underrepresented in the sport , beginning
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