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Sports X Live: Philadelphia Phillies vs Washington Nationals Live …
Apr 5th
The Washington Nationals found perhaps the only pitcher who can trump Roy Halladay’s debut with the Philadelphia Phillies. He’s a lefty without a whole lot of experience, and one of his big recent victories came by the eye-popping score of 219-212. of course, that was a health care vote in the House of Representatives, not a baseball outing. The left-hander is President Barack Obama, who will mark the 100th anniversary of presidential first pitches by performing the ceremonial duty Monday at Nationals Park. Cool customer Ryan Zimmerman gets the honor of catching the actual first pitch—“It’s just a pitch. I’ve met Bush and those guys before,” he said— and the Gold Glove third baseman might need to exhibit his best range to save the Commander in Chief some embarrassment. Obama didn’t grow up playing organized baseball and nearly bounced his only previous presidential first-pitch attempt at the All-Star Game in St. Louis last year.
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On Cesar Chavez Day, Rediscover Cesar Chavez
Mar 31st
When California in 2000 became the first of eight states to declare March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day, the goal was to connect the honor with a curriculum that would educate students about Chavez. yet ten years later, it is clear that young Californians know little about Cesar Chavez, and that those raised outside the West Coast and Southwest know even less. Millions of Americans even think Barack Obama invented the Yes We can rallying cry, unaware of its roots in the UFWs Si Se Puede.(a listener to a recent Talk of the Nation show on NPR told me that host Neal Conan also credited Obama with launching the slogan). One reason schools teach little about Chavez is that he led both a progressive social movement and a labor union still controversial positions in many states and localities. another is a reluctance to credit a Latino with greatly impacting the broader society. Last week, students at Santa Monica College asked me what I thought were the three most important facts about Chavezs legacy. Heres what I told them.