Infinite Inning 072: Killed Off By the Killjoys

Published: Sept. 15, 2018, 3 a.m.

b'Baseballs Try to Murder Fritz Ostermueller* Permanent Rainout, September 21, 1938*Stephon Johnson: The New York Amsterdam News/Advocacy Journalism*When Did African Americans Lose Interest in Baseball?*The Buttoned-Down Culture of Baseball*Fisk and Sanders, Showalter and Griffey*Racists on the Rise*\\u201cBaseball Needs Another Rickey Henderson\\u201d*Dexter Fowler Calumnied*John Kruk: J\\u2019Accuse!*Keith Hernandez vs. Dave Parker*The Effect of the Missing African American Teachers*The Financial Barriers to Being a Prospect*Solutions*The Damage of Disavowing Barry Bonds and the Gang (\\u201cWe Still Enjoyed What We Saw\\u201d)*Goodbyes.

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