reporter: dave cash, manny sanguillen, and al oliver all had stellar baseball careers playing for the pittsburgh pirates. but one game they played 50 years ago made history. just so many people out there that have no clue that this day happened. reporter: on september 1, 1971, the pirates starting lineup in the field was all african american and afro-latino players, the first time ever for major league baseball. you guys didn t realize, at the start of the game, 1971, that nine dark-skinned folks were going out on the field at the same time? in the second or third inning is when i realized it. i didn t realize it when we were standing there because i am thinking about the game. reporter: manager danny murtaugh later explained his lineup decision to catcher sanguillen. i did it because i want to win. i don t care who i put in the field.
prediction. i would say it s sad on a day that a number of negro league greats are going to be at the white house later today to be honored by president obama for their contributions to the civil rights era and movement. you know, we have this story, which is just sort of so unfortunate. the late, great richard ben cramer who wrote what it takes, a wonderful book about the 1980 presidential election, was thinking about writing a book about alex rodriguez and always said there just wasn t he was like a lost kid. so great column in the new york times about that today. i recommend people read it about a-r a-rod, sort of his motivations. it s just a sad end to what we thought was going to be maybe one of the greatest baseball careers in history. well, i recommend that people go back and read the stuff, go see the movie 42, think about what jackie robinson went through to play baseball and then this comparison. thank you very much, chris. that does it for us on a monday
succeed quade because he has no previous managing experience. there s a football game you might have heard saturday night. but here s what a lot of us are going to be watching. if you ve got $20 and some time to kill, you re going to want to catch a pay per view celebrity boxing card that includes jose canseco versus lennie dykstra. both players have had interesting baseball careers. canseco wrote the book exposing the steroid problem and has since tried his hand at reality tv. and dykstra recently was charged with possession of drugs and grand theft auto. it s an incredible undercard. the octomom is also fighting amy fisher. joey will be fighting amy s
little league players, major league injuries. new studies warn that a growing number of kids are developing serious arm injuries. some could be seeing their baseball careers end before they actually begin. so how serious is the problem? cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us with a closer look on this. what type of injuries are we talking about in the arm. we re talking about injuries to a ligament in the shoulder. this is a ligament that gives your shoulder flexibility. what they found in the study that was presented at the american association of orthopedic surgeons is that some of these boys are now having flexibility problems and pain because of so much playing in the little leagues. so what these doctors did, it was interesting, they took boys who played different positions and they compared the arm they use to the arm that they don t use, their throwing arm versus their not throwing arm to see what s going on. what they found was really