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The Tigers were the next to last team to integrate, I believe. They did not have a black player until 1959. Former Milwaukee Brave center fielder Billy Bruton came to Detroit in a trade in 1961. He and 2nd baseman Jake Wood were the first blacks in the Tiger regular lineup that year.

I don't watch ESPN Sportcenter much anymore, but I saw it this evening. A topic of discussion was whether a team will sign Barry Bonds to help make the playoffs. ESPN's announcers were favorable to this idea. "Why doesn't a team sign Barry Bonds. He will help their offense," they said in effect...

I recall an article during the 1974 NFL season on this subject. At the time, Joe Gilliam was temporarily starting for the Steelers, and James Harris had just been promoted to No. 1 QB for the Los Angeles Rams. Someone was quoted as saying that "many quarterbacks aren't leaders of their teams."...

As I remember Robert Creamer's biography of Ruth made that point. Ruth was not fat and overweight at his peak.

The always tough-minded Lawrence Auster has a post on this crime: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/010885.html

I think I have referred to this before, but I will mention it again. Back in the 1960's, sportswriters would complain that the NHL was outdrawing the NBA in some cities. Some writers would accuse the fans of racism for preferring ice hockey to pro basketball. This is a long-time preoccupation...

A few days ago, I was in a Border's store and glanced at Herschel Walker's new book, "Breaking Free." Walker reveals that he has a form of mental illness called dissociative identity disorder, or DID, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. However, this is only in the last chapter...

Here is a great thread from Lawrence Auster's View FRom The Right site. Hillary's white supporters are finally fighting back. They say they will not vote for the Great Obama in November. Obama had figured out that a black candidate who was not Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton could get the votes of...

The Tennessee Titans are a franchise that seems to have wanted QB to be a "black" position. The management must think that a dink and dunk pass offense is the way to go.

According to the book, Until Proven Innocent, the parents of the Duke lacrosse players asked them that very question, "How could you have let her in the house?" Remember that as students of a typical "elite" university, the LAX players have been well indoctrinated. They probably thought that it...

The only time a feminist has ever condemned a black man for brutality toward women was the case of Tammy Bruce when she was the head of NOW in Los Angeles during and after the O.J. Simpson trial. After the trial, she said something like "abuse of women is more important than racism." She even...

What really happened to McCain in captivity is not known for certain. His fans have long pointed out that the North Vietnamese offered McCain early release and he turned it down. They don't say that the senior officers in the Hanoi Hilton gave McCain a direct order not to accept early release...

The railing against working class whites for not supporting Brack Obama has begun. It will reach a thunderous crescendo if Obama loses in November, which he probably will if McCain can maintain a heartbeat, or does nor roll over completely. A piece in the Washington Post referenced by...

This doesn't look like IT, but something has often occured to me. Any large city has the potential of having another O.J. Simpson fiasco. All it takes is for another Great Sports Hero blow up is a rage (which is what Simpson did) and kill somebody. It would play out the same way and would end...

The fact that most Deputy DA's in LA are women comes from a book by a former prosecutor. The well-known failures by the LA DA's office were the "Twilight Zone," Menendez I (hung jury), Simpson, and Robert Blake. Each of these trials had a female lead prosecutor. The "Big" wins the office had...

More than half of the attorneys in the LA County District Attorney's office are now women. The LA DA's office has often been criticized for "losing the big ones." Less often mentioned by the MSM is that the losing prosecutors in these cases have usually been women, Marcia Clark, for example. The...