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“Anytime I feel something is wrong I'm gonna say something. Baseball has changed in many ways since I first came to the big leagues. Ballplayers feel they can speak up much more now than they did then. I spoke up even then. [...] I didn't like some of the things the white players said to Roberts so I said some things to them that they didn't like.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f31ac876886778a6ff9455c2413d2b55733556dc58c0f104eeda264fa04904d7
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