White Advocate To Integrate MLB Dies

Ben CohenBen Cohen|published: Tue 22nd December, 14:15 2009

You know Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, but maybe not Lester Rodney, the sportswriter who campaigned to break baseball's color line from the august pages of The Daily Worker, the U.S. Communist Party's rag. He died Sunday at 98. [ Olbermann]

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