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Originally Posted by wolf441
I understand your questioning of his statistics. I was just making the point that he was voted into the HOF in 1962, when there were still Jim Crow laws and before LBJ signed his civil rights act into law. So for a country that was less than fair minded about race at the time, to elect him to the HOF says quite a bit about what they thought of him as a player...
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Actually, LBJ and Al Gore Sr blocked the civil rights bill from passing when Eisenhower tried in the 50's.