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- I don't know. - Third base.
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And baseball was proof positive that democracy was real.
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A baseball box score, after all, is a democratic thing.
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It doesn't say how big you are or what religion you follow.
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It does not know how you voted or the color of your skin.
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It simply states what kind of ballplayer you were
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on any particular day.
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And he did it. It's a home run.
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They knew he'd do it.
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African Americans had served their country gallantly.
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But they returned home from fighting the world
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to free the world from tyranny...