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Ideals & InjusticesIf America stands for freedom, equality, and opportunity, can baseball truly stand for America? Does the game’s troubling legacy of segregated black teams contradict our ideal of “liberty and justice for all”? Do all-male professional teams challenge the promise of equal opportunity? Teams and fans increasingly embrace people of varied backgrounds and beliefs. Does tolerance in the stadium mean that America has built a truly multicultural society? It is this controversial history and changing face that make baseball an effective emblem of America. Look to baseball and you will see our ideals and our injustices, our triumphs and our struggles. In baseball — as in America — freedom is an ongoing quest. The game has mirrored American intolerance and efforts to end it. It has greeted immigrants welcomingly and warily, spawning bittersweet scenes such as wartime Japanese-American internees defying prejudice with bat and glove. The history of American freedom is complex. That complexity is starkly visible when America is viewed through the prism of baseball. To learn more about the exhibit, select a section below:
Our National
Spirit The
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