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Some great basball players were excluded from Major League Baseball (MLB) for many decades, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige among them.
When Jackie Robinson and GM Branch Rickey of the The Brooklyn Dodgers de-segregated the MLB, they won my heart forever.
The MLB has taken to periodically having their teams dress in the uniforms of the old (and excluded black and Latino) teams. Good idea.
But: I recently attended a Washington 'Nats game and the scoreboard only had the teams listed as the Greys and the Latino team, whose name I forget.
Not such a good idea.
In Montgomery County MD, which has a substantial Jewish population, the public schools close down for Yom Kippur. This antagonizes some people, and, I must say I don't blame them. Upper Montgomery County, like most all of America, including among Jews, and blacks, harbors some racist feelings, sometimes against their own people ( ! ) (?) ( !)
Of course, Christmas and New Years are holiday time. For many they are religious holy days. But they have also become secular days of celebration and gift-giving, too often commercialized, but lovely nonetheless.
Not so with Yom Kippur.
Still, it is a beautiful, haunting, mysterious Day of Atonement worthy of examination by Jew and Gentile alike
PS. It was said that Babe Ruth, The Sultan of Swat himself, had African "bloodlines."
I doubt that he "passed." He was brought up in an orphanage in Baltiomore MD. He played himself in the tragic tear-jerker The Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper playing Lou Gehrig. It was once my very favorite movie --- despite the feelings I have against The Bronx Bombers. Alas, The Bambino ,too, died early.
Notwithstanding modern medical progress, too many people do.
I know a man in DC, in his late 70s, whose fine thirty-something daughter recently succumbed to cancer. What a tragedy to have a loved child pre-decease you...
Ben
Some great basball players were excluded from Major League Baseball (MLB) for many decades, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige among them.
When Jackie Robinson and GM Branch Rickey of the The Brooklyn Dodgers de-segregated the MLB, they won my heart forever.
The MLB has taken to periodically having their teams dress in the uniforms of the old (and excluded black and Latino) teams. Good idea.
But: I recently attended a Washington 'Nats game and the scoreboard only had the teams listed as the Greys and the Latino team, whose name I forget.
Not such a good idea.
In Montgomery County MD, which has a substantial Jewish population, the public schools close down for Yom Kippur. This antagonizes some people, and, I must say I don't blame them. Upper Montgomery County, like most all of America, including among Jews, and blacks, harbors some racist feelings, sometimes against their own people ( ! ) (?) ( !)
Of course, Christmas and New Years are holiday time. For many they are religious holy days. But they have also become secular days of celebration and gift-giving, too often commercialized, but lovely nonetheless.
Not so with Yom Kippur.
Still, it is a beautiful, haunting, mysterious Day of Atonement worthy of examination by Jew and Gentile alike
PS. It was said that Babe Ruth, The Sultan of Swat himself, had African "bloodlines."
I doubt that he "passed." He was brought up in an orphanage in Baltiomore MD. He played himself in the tragic tear-jerker The Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper playing Lou Gehrig. It was once my very favorite movie --- despite the feelings I have against The Bronx Bombers. Alas, The Bambino ,too, died early.
Notwithstanding modern medical progress, too many people do.
I know a man in DC, in his late 70s, whose fine thirty-something daughter recently succumbed to cancer. What a tragedy to have a loved child pre-decease you...
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 8:20 AM
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