In the 2000 edition of Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Mays ranks third all time, behind Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner, and just ahead of Negro League legend Oscar Charleston.

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Just as the signing of Jackie Robinson turned many Negro League fans into Brooklyn Dodgers fans in the 1940s, Japanese fans in 1995 so took to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the team signed pitching icon Hideo Nomo that the club started its own Japanese TV network.

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It concluded that Suarez had called Evra a "negro" no fewer than seven times during the course of the English Premier League match.

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