Bob Gibson on race, baseball
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Bob Gibson – Society for American Baseball Research
The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St.
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Bob Gibson, Cardinals legend and Hall of Fame pitcher, dies at 84
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In 1968 baseball showed black, white, Hispanic players could get
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Black baseball players struggled long after Jackie Robinson broke
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