Soon after his death, Roberto Clemente became the first Latino player to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Jackie Robinson had difficulty on and off the baseball field, but he did not let that interfere with his game.

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But in nineteen seventy-five, two pitchers in Major League Baseball, Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally, fought the system and won.

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That year, the Boston Red Sox baseball team bought the right to make Babe Ruth a player for their team.

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The young baseball player told Mister Campanis that he would join the Brooklyn team as soon as he finished school.

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He also led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six league championships and to baseball's World Series Championship in nineteen fifty-five.

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The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

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In nineteen twenty-two, two stations in New York State joined together to broadcast the championship game of American baseball.

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While in high school, Roberto signed a contract to play baseball for the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league.

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Baseball expert Richard Miller writes that many songs about other subjects -- such as love -- use words and expressions from baseball.

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Today Shirley Griffith and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about a man who changed professional baseball in the United States.

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In nineteen twenty, the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth's contract to the famous New York Yankees baseball team.

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That same year, Clemente helped his team beat the New York Yankees to win the World Series - the national baseball championship.

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