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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Lectures In History 20140901

baseball and rhethe rethinking the civil rights movement. let me start out with a confession to you. as long as i ve been teaching the civil rights movement, it didn t make sense to me.v/a i m a baby boomer. i was born at the end of world war ii. i came of age if the 1950s and 1960s, so why does a historian present something current? my mind changed in 2001. let me tell you what happened in 2001. i had the great privilege to serve as moderator for a session on pastime, baseball is history at the organization for american historians. and the session was focusing on judeç tyjeel s new book. we had a great panel with stanley cutler, james marin from princeton university and jewels augusty from san francisco state, and then our surprise anchorperson, sharon robbins, head and founder of jackie s 9 and the daughter of jackie robinson. and we had a great session. it was well attended. at the end of the session, i had the chance to chat with sharon robinson. and we were both concer

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Top 10 player nicknames in Indians history

share-square-22461 CLEVELAND Almost every team has a player who goes by his nickname more often than his birth name. Some nicknames are as simple as changing “Roberto” to “Berto,” like the Indians’ current starting catcher. But others can get much more creative. What are some of the best nicknames in Indians history? Let’s take a look. 1. Pronk Maybe Travis Hafner didn’t have the typical athletic body type. He was larger than most, weighing 240 pounds as a 6-foot-3-inch designated hitter. He earned the nicknames “The Project” and “Donkey,” but it wasn’t until utility man Bill Selby morphed the names together to create the one and only, Pronk. The name later turned into a candy bar in 2006, as Malley’s Chocolates of Cleveland created a treat that Hafner told MLB.com’s Anthony Castrovince tasted like a Nestle Crunch bar, but with “better chocolate.”