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From: marvinm@ttidcb.UUCP (Marvin Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball,net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: First Black Baseball Player
Message-ID: <534@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 19:24:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 19:24:07 1985
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In article <544@petfe.UUCP> evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) writes:
>Who was the first black ballplayer?  My history books and my instinct
>tells me the obvious answer: Jackie Robinson.  
>
>Why then does Trivial Pursuit say that it was some other guy?  Has
>everybody else seen that question?  The answer is some other guy
>whose name escapes me, but whom I had never heard of.

Satchell Paige, by chance?

>
>Is that just one of their blunders, or is there more going on here
>than I know about?

Yes, there is more going on than you know about. Its called the popularization
of history into a media-attractive form. But there ARE wrong answers in
T.P.
>
>--Evan Marcus
>-- 
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>
>Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot?
I DID!! Want to make something of it, pipsqueak (=: