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Eleven weeks to irrelevance

By Scoop Jackson
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Thursday, July 12, 2007

In the days following baseball's last great event, an event where Barry Bonds was given a standing ovation and Willie Mays rode around in a pink Caddy tossing balls to fans and police officers, in the wake of a three-part series celebrating Hank Aaron on "SportsCenter," something huge was missing. It's been 11 weeks since Jackie Robinson was nationally celebrated for breaking the color barrier in baseball. Eleven weeks since baseball stopped everything it was doing to celebrate the man who chan ...

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