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“In those days, you know, the Indian was in the position of a minority group. Still is, for that matter. Nowadays, you can’t ridicule an Irishman on the television, you can’t ridicule a Jew, and you can’t ridicule a Negro. But they can kill us all the time—make everything out of us they want. Every night you see them on the television—killing us Indians. That’s all they do. That’s one reason I don’t look at anything but a ball game or the news on the television. I like the ball games and the news, but after the news, then comes the killing. Those things I don’t like to talk about. I see them…I know them…but I don’t like to talk about them.”
― Lawrence S. Ritter, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It