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So they aren't raising fists in the air with heads down when one of "their" pitchers gets declared innocent on a ball-strike call?  :- )
Glad to see that we're pretty well on top of it in baseball.  ... I'd be interested to hear what James thinks about the calls Bob Gibson got, or didn't get.  Seems to me that even back in the 1950's the umping was *in routine situations* fairly even-handed, but I could be wrong.
Moe, do you remember whether the strike zones in the 60's and 70's seemed racist to you?  I don't remember much that bothered me back in the day.  ... Sports have a way of integrating people.

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