KPIX CBS Weekend News September 5, 2021 00:52:00
>> reporter: a local paper dubbed them the "all soul" lineup, but the team wasn't always welcome. >> we were called everything but a child of god from the stands. >> reporter: and, just weeks later, they won the world series. >> people around the game recognized the pirates had a pretty good formula. >> reporter: bruce markusen is a historian at the baseball hall of fame and has written about the 1971 pirates. why was this significant for baseball in a grander scale? >> it showed that finally, it became about, let's get the best players regardless of skin color. and baseball is a copycat sport...
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