That Time the KKK Played an All-Black Baseball Team
Rounders: A History of Baseball in America
English - August 01, 2022 16:20 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 101 ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The year is 1925. The KKK is alive and thriving in American culture and politics. A group of Klansmen in Kansas set up a game against a local all-black professional baseball squad.
Would racism and divisiveness win the day? Or would a game of baseball show the local community, and the country at large, unveil racial superiority as the hoax it really is? Find out what happened - today on Rounders: A History of Baseball in America.
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