For baseball’s Black and Latino players, it’s always 1926 somewhere
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From home-run celebrations to tilted caps, players embracing joy continue to collide with an old guard devoted to Dust Bowl grimness Over the last several years, simultaneously lauded and paralyzed by its ironclad traditions, baseball has undergone various forays into reinvention, trying to free itself from its unwritten rules of retaliation , its seeming aversion to joy, its demand that every generation of player o…
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- For baseball’s Black and Latino players, it’s always 1926 somewhereThe Guardian Sport