Word of the Day: redress
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Credit.Cindy Lozito
verb: make reparations or amends for
noun: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
noun: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
The word
If baseball somehow reflects America, as romanticists like to believe, then it also shares in its blemishes. The National and American leagues were segregated until 1947, and the decades since have been marked by a halting kind of reckoning.
On Wednesday, Major League Baseball took one of its biggest steps to