... was signed to The Brooklyn Dodgers. Baseball is an all-American past time sport but what some don't know is when baseball first was invented in 1839 by a man name Abner Doubleday it was not designed to be segregated. It wasn't always called baseball, the original name was "Townball" the word baseball originated in England five years before the ... ...

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... elected to national office. There have been other gay and lesbian legislators who were either "outed- or chose to come out while in office. Since first elected in 1980, Barney Frank has served in the Massachusetts' 4th District as an openly homosexual member of the House of Representatives. Representative Jim Kolbe gained national attention at the most recent Republican National Convention ... ...

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