Cincinnati Offers Baseball History Along With All-Star Game; Associated Press via New York Times, 7/5/15

Associated Press via New York Times; Cincinnati Offers Baseball History Along With All-Star Game:

"The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has a new exhibit called "Diversity in Baseball" celebrating barrier-breaking players: blacks, Jewish, Native American, Latino, Asian and females such as stars of the women's professional baseball league started during World War II as told in the movie "A League of Their Own."

There are also displays on Jim Abbott, who overcame being born without a right hand to become a successful big-league pitcher who threw a 1993 no-hitter, and umpire Dale Scott, who last winter came out as gay. There's a replica pitching mound area with an image of Sandy Koufax, the Hall of Fame pitcher who declined to pitch in a 1965 World Series game that fell on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. And there's also video of "Peanut Jim" Shelton, a black man who sold hot roasted nuts while wearing a black top hat and tails outside Reds stadiums for five decades.

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