10 little known Jackie Robinson facts
SLIDESHOW - As the 2013 baseball season kicks off, the legacy of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player to take the field in the 20th Century, is remembered...
Mayor fires cop who slurred black Red Sox player
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts mayor has fired a police officer accused of directing a racial slur at Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford during a baseball game.
Officer punished for racial slur on Red Sox player
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts police officer was put on paid leave Wednesday after an internal investigation found that he directed a racial slur at Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford...
Mass. officer focus of probe in Red Sox slur
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police officer is under investigation after allegations that he directed a racial slur at Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford last week...
Much a-Youuu about nothing? Obama zinger gets buzz
WASHINGTON (AP) — Were they booing the president? Or were they 'youuu-ing' him?...
9 more claim abuse by late Red Sox clubhouse chief
BOSTON (AP) - Nine more men are accusing a now-dead Boston Red Sox clubhouse manager of sexual abuse, including assaults at Fenway Park and Memorial Stadium, former home of the Baltimore Orioles...
Cosby recalls baseball youth: 'I wasn't any good'
(AP) - Bill Cosby played football at Temple, ran track for the Owls and still attends their basketball games. But baseball? Not so much while growing up at the Richard Allen projects in Philadelphia...
Finding the courage to report child abuse
theGRIO REPORT - Leeronnie Ogletree was one of those boys. When he was 10 years old he was like all the other kids in his Winter Haven, Florida neighborhood, until the day he says he met Donald Fitzpatrick...
Ex-Red Sox clubhouse manager preyed on black boys
Between 1971 and 1991, Donald Fitzpatrick, a long-time Red Sox clubhouse manager, systematically molested and abused nearly a dozen African-American boys...
