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Sean Kirst: Eighty years after Jackie Robinson's minor league heroics, a spotlight on his courage and pain in Syracuse

3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (1756+ words) Ron Gersbacher was maybe 15 when his Northside Wildcats of the old Kiwanis League qualified in 1962 to play for a local junior baseball championship. Syracuse city recreation director Nicoletta Urciuoli told the players that she had some special jerseys, which Gersbacher…...