[As I’ve
done each of the
last couple years, this week I shared an Opening Day series—this time
focused on AmericanStudying some particularly interesting baseball identities. Leading
up to this repeat of one of my favorite Guest Posts, on one of my favorite
Americans!]
I’ve written
about Jackie Robinson in almost every post this week, and for good reason—his is
perhaps the most famous (and certainly the most influential) baseball life in
American history. So it might seem like we know the key moments and details of that
life very well. Yet there’s always more to learn, and in one of my favorite
Guest Posts to date, my great former student, friend, and fellow
AmericanStudier Tim McCaffrey highlighted one such amazing story from Robinson’s
pre-baseball service in the Army. Check it out:
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Other baseball lives or stories you’d highlight?
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