Guzzardi: States join immigration enforcement battle
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Guzzardi: States join immigration enforcement battle

ByJoe Guzzardi

The national frustration over President Biden’s immigration agenda was reflected not only in the presidential election’s results but also in Arizona. Proposition 314, a border security measure that makes it a state crime to enter Arizona from Mexico and outside of a legal port of entry, passed overwhelmingly. Nearly 63% of Arizonians voted for the…

American Indians have storied history in baseball
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American Indians have storied history in baseball

ByJoe Guzzardi

Between 1884 and 1947, from the year that Moses Fleetwood Walker played for the American Association’s Toledo Mud Hens until the Brooklyn Dodgers inserted Jackie Robinson into the lineup, the most prominent minority in baseball was American Indians. One of the most insightful chapters in Larry Ritter’s classic, “The Glory of Their Times,” is based…

Willie Mays was Mother’s Day gift to New York
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Willie Mays was Mother’s Day gift to New York

ByJoe Guzzardi

On Mother’s Day in 1972, Willie Mays returned to New York. The Giants’ hero from the 1950s was now a member of the Mets, and smacked his 647th career home run in the fifth inning of his first game back. Mets owner and president Joan Payson, mother of five, and San Francisco Giants’ chief executive…