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"It hits you, doesn't it?" said Red Sox consultant Tommy Harper. "What a contrast from then and now. So many black players, and now you look at teams and you wonder, where have they gone?" And are they coming back soon? It is a topic dripping in irony. There was such a struggle to integrate baseball, with Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in the 1940s. There were so many superstars from the 1950s through the 1970s -- Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Willie McCovey, Ernie Banks -- and very good players like Harper, Vada Pinson, Bobby Bonds, Maury Wills, on and on. Now . . . "I've heard so many theories, and have a few myself, but I don't have an answer for it," said Harper. There are many opinions about why only 8 percent of major league players are African-American, compared with 28 percent in the mid-1970s.
Loop Diggin' Thursdays, News & Rants 04.05.07
"There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye"
On April 1st, 1984, the world heard the one news report that everyone wished was an April Fool's joke. Granted, it would've been a terrible April Fool's joke, but nonetheless, people wished it actually was a farced instead of it being true. "...on the afternoon of April 1, 1984 - one day before his 45th birthday - Gaye was shot and killed by the Reverend Marvin Gay, Sr. in the aftermath of a heated argument." On the surface, Marvin Gaye was the kind of guy that girls wanted and guys wanted to be. Yet, when you really look at his life, there was so much non-stop DRAMA that people would think twice about wanting to live his life.
Every school, every Thursday / Des Moines east-north
Parents Night for the third, fourth and fifth grades was rescheduled for March 6, and even with the date change there was a great turnout of more than 100 students and their families. The three grade levels were scheduled for three activities: meal in the cafeteria, build a book and math Olympics. Parents and students participated to create a book from a kit purchased by the PTA. The books were mini-scrapbooks with different background sheets and foam shapes to create images important to the student. Parent and student created the book together and then got to take the book home. The math Olympics involved measurement activities like the Straw Javelin and the Sponge Squeeze. The students estimated distance, mass and volume and then measured to determine accurate data with the difference between estimation and actual data.
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