Posted by thesportsjunky on September 11, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The MLB season is almost over and the run to the postseason is heating up as teams continue to try to find their way to the playoffs.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on May 31, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The MLB would celebrate an important milestone this week when they played the 8th annual Civil Rights Game. It is a game that is meant to highlight the history of African American players in the game. That history was not always the best for the MLB as they would not fully break the colour barrier until the 1950s. There is a long history of African American baseball and it is a very rich one with some amazing players that were never allowed to play in the MLB. As the world still believed that only one race was good enough to play there was a lot of amazing talent missed.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment
This week would mark a very important date in the history of the MLB as April 8th would mark the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record. On April 8th 1974 “Hammerin’ Hank” would hit his 715th career home run breaking a record that had stood since Babe Ruth hit his last home run in 1935. It was a changing period for the MLB a time that the world was changing around the league.
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