Tom - you make a good point.
I will not bash either man.
Other than the fact that they were both great Baseball players, their situations were not very comparable except that their efforts, regardless of their intent, were heroic and stand out among their predecessors, their contemporaries, and, thus far, any of their successors.
They have left a high bar for the rest of us.
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"A life is not important except in the impact it has on others lives" - Jackie Robinson
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