In baseball, Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game on July twenty-third.

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Strasburg received the highest pay agreement of any rookie pitcher in baseball history.

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Jackie won honors in baseball,basketball, football and track.

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Mark Buehrle is now a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in 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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In nineteen sixty-two, Jackie Robinson was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, an honor given only to baseball's best players.

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

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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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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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By nineteen forty-five, there was a lot of heat in a lot of different areas -- professional baseball was certainly feeling that.

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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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Many of the best baseball players in the United States played in the Negro Leagues before white professional teams began accepting black players.

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Blacks were not permitted to play on professional baseball teams or in any other major league sport.

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He became the first Latino baseball player to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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In nineteen twenty-five, he was returning on a train from baseball spring training in the South.

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He owned the New York Yankees. His desire to win at all costs produced not only the most powerful team in Major League Baseball.

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In nineteen seventy-five, the average salary in Major League Baseball was just under forty-five thousand dollars.

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The Washington Nationals chose Strasburg with the first pick in the two thousand nine baseball draft.

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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was the first black man to play in modern major league baseball.

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As a young man,he was interested in being a religious worker or a baseball player.

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In nineteen forty-seven, Jackie Robinson became the first black to play modern major league baseball.

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Unlike Major League Baseball,salaries in the National Basketball Association and some other leagues are capped.

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Today's Latino baseball players say Roberto Clemente opened doors for them to reach their goals in a sport that had not always treated them equally.

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