Sports
LeBron James, the Media, and the American Soul
In other basketball franchise cities, millions of fans who thought their team would have a chance to sign the man who wears a tattoo, “Chosen 1″, across his back, wailed incessantly, as if their high school’s Prom Queen had just rejected their mournful bid to go steady.
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Willie, Mickey and The Duke of Flatbush Ave.
It wasn’t till years later when the adult world forced its reality unto my youthful mind that I learned he was carrying the hopes and aspirations of an entire race on his shoulders as baseball’s first African-American player.
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