BASEBALL

The Gates of Major League Baseball Swing Open for Orthodox Jews

Jacob Steinmetz made history two years ago as the first Orthodox Jew ever drafted by a major league ballclub.

After 75 Years, Jackie Robinson Still Shows Us We Can Do Better, In Spite of Ourselves

On April 15, 1947—75 years ago this week—a Black man stepped onto a major league baseball diamond and into history.

Civil Rights Icon Hank Aaron: A Tough Out, On and Off the Field

His legacy is a lesson to all of us when faced with the bitter fruit of discrimination, hate and intolerance: Be your own “tough out.”

Overcoming Discrimination—the ’69 World Series and Hurricanes Today

In the late summer and fall of 1969 there was a great deal of hostility and discrimination between the Black and White communities in New York City. The general level of communication was resentful or antagonistic among strangers from each.

Tim Tebow’s Religion, America’s Favorite Pastime

What’s the saying? “It’s as American as baseball and apple pie?” Football gets a lot of the love these days but whenever I go to a live baseball game—anything from little league to major league—I always feel like I’m part of something special, something quintessentially American.

The Courage to Speak Up

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke, 18th-century Irish statesman and philosopher I read this article a little while back about Yankees great Derek Jeter taking a stand against bullying and hate speech.