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Baseball and Jackie Robinson, the Glory of Their Times
The sport is built to make success extremely hard at every level like when you're in the minors, you're getting exploited. When you get to the majors until 1973 you are locked in with a team unable to move unless the owner decides to trade you or cut you lose. This was a great summer for Aaron Judge chasing the Roger Maris home run record because there was so much talk about what is the real record? You've got Barry Bond, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire all hit more than one homer but they were all on steroids. We're presuming that Aaron Judge wasn't amphetamine-addicted. And then you know Babe Ruth would be the guy that holds