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The Greatest Baseball Films

Peter Dreier Portside
Most baseball films are pure entertainment. But baseball is often the setting for notable films that tell a bigger story about America’s social conditions. As the Major League Baseball season begins, here are 13 examples.

Tidbits – July 20, 2023 – Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike To Limit AI Is for You and Me – We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard As Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; Robert Reich; War on Women

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Reader Comments: Hollywood Strike to Limit AI is for You and Me - We Are All Extras; DeSantis Using State Guard as Private Army; Negro League, Baseball Integration, the Left; Hollywood Labor Films; War on Women - Russia Says Give Birth Early;

How Minor League Ballplayers Won a Union

Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier The Nation
The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.

Friday Nite Videos | January 13, 2023

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Earth, Wind & Fire | Documentary. George Carlin | Baseball vs Football. Where Did All the Gold in the Universe Come From? Congresswoman Shares Stillbirth Story Pre-Roe v Wade. These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy.
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